Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new features have been added as well).  You'll see some greate new features like The ADO.NET Entity Framework and some new ASP.NET Extensions.

Here's the description of the Service Pack VS2008 (from the site):

This download installs Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. SP1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. These service packs offer Visual Studio and .NET Framework users improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance.
Click here for more information regarding about these service packs.
IMPORTANT

• If you previously installed a Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix, you must run the Hotfix Cleanup Utility before installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1. For more information, see Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility for Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
• If you have multiple Visual Studio products installed, you must upgrade all of them to SP1. If you have Visual Studio 2008 and one or more 2008 Express Editions, you cannot upgrade the Express Editions until you have upgraded Visual Studio.
• Prior to installation, you should carefully review the included readme file to be aware of any known issues with this release.
• The following technologies have been tested and verified to work with SP1:
  • Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2 & Silverlight Tools Beta 2. (If Silverlight Tools Beta 2 is already installed, you must upgrade it after you install Visual Studio 2008 SP1. To upgrade, use the installer on the Silverlight Tools Beta 2 page on the Microsoft Downloa
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  • MVC Preview Release #3
  • ASP.NET Extensions/Dynamic Data Preview
  • VC 2008 Feature Pack
  • VB PowerPack Controls (2.0 & 3.0)
  • Expression Studio 2 (RTM)
  • SQL Server 2008
  • .NET Framework 3.5 SDK
  • XSLT Profiler
  • VSTA 2.0 SDK
  • Visual Studio 2008 SDK
  If you encounter issues installing SP1, uninstall technologies and/or development add-ins not listed above, and then try SP1 Setup again. When other technologies are verified to be compatible with SP1, they will be added to this list.

To download this Service Pack: click here

~Robert Shelton

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