Today my vacation came to an end. Due to the SLA I agreed on with my wife I had to store my work-notebook three weeks ago and had to promise not to use that ... or otherwise a divorce would be filed. So that was that.

I survived, as you noticed, but when I wanted to use my notebook today I totally forgot where I stored the machine ... I stored it in a safe place before hitting the road but forgot about it so my day started with a search for my machine. Of course it was in a complete obvious location, stored it in our fire safe to make sure that if I returned from France and the house by some circumstances would be burned down the machine would survive (haven't tested it ...).

Anyway ... found the machine and worked through my first day after the holidays.

And now the other thing.

A couple of months ago I started to work on the SP1 beta bits for Visual Studio to check and see if one of my showstopper bugs that I found in VSTO was fixed. I found out that it appeared that password protected documents could end up in a corrupted state losing the cached data from the documents but it was just after going RTM when I filed the bug.

List of VSTO fixes in SP1, my feedback ID was 328329. Fix no four in the list :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949258/

The result was that we had to wait releasing our VS 2008 project until SP1 would be released. This however gave us some air to think of a couple of new features to add to the original design ;-)

It all happened today August 11 2008 and ths Service Packs 1 are now released on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads !

Here are the links:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en 

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673C47-B3B5-4C67-BD99-84E525B5CE61&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool, to remove pre release bits from your dev machine.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A494B0E0-EB07-4FF1-A21C-A4663E456D9D&displaylang=en

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9E40A5B6-DA41-43A2-A06D-3CEE196BFE3D&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) with Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2E9A8C35-EB3D-43EB-9122-A5EC195CD7BB&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) with Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=021B3BEE-B2AD-42A8-854A-C5EAEF69E927&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Remote Debugger
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=440EC902-3260-4CDC-B11A-6A9070A2AAAB&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Stand-Alone Profiler
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FD02C7D6-5306-41F2-A1BE-B7DCB74C9C0B&displaylang=en

There is a lot more ... VS 2008 Expression Service Packs, SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Service Packs, books online updates etc etc.

I am sure you can find the goodies in the download site or otherwise on MSDN.

Update:
Here is another entry to find some Service Packs ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533448.aspx

Have fun, it's working time again!