Shawn, thanks for the info. It's so sad to see this thing is getting dragged on for ever.

MS must really be under the hammer releasing too many things to soon and then breaking things that used to work. I noticed that Scott Guthrie has not blogged for a month which kinda indicates the strain that must be going on. This is really annoying news I noticed that Mike Flasko on the Astoria team blog has said "the Silverlight Beta 2 data services library may work in some scenarios" This is really disappointing and annoying at the same time.

Steve,

I understand your disappointment. Don't assume that Scott Guthrie's silence means anything...he is on paternity leave. If were up to me, i'd love to have waited and released SL2 RTM at the same time, but I assume that have a specific reason. The real reason seems to be SQL Server 2008 (since it required VS 2008 SP1 RTM to work). I think its more a matter of lots of releases all at once...

I guess it would be nice if they could tell us what won't work. Maybe SL RTM is not far away. My main gripe is that I did not see your's or Mikes blogs until after I moved to SP1 RTM and in my excitment I rushed ahead. I think that going backwards would probably cause issues. So I just have to wait and see what I find to not work. As for the Gu gaf I guess to assume makes an ASS oUt of ME so congrats to the Gu.

Shawn, here is a complete list of .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 changes compare to .NET Fx 3.5.
http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/08/13/net-3-5-sp1-changes-overview.aspx

1.393 new public methods,
79 new public types,
6.384 methods where code was changed
...

#$%^ half way through a SL2 + data services app installed SP1 now Im stuffed :(

Philip,

That's why you need to read your blog reader more often ;) Seriously, according to Microsoft, it should work with some of the functionality, it just isn't "Fully compatible".

After a full night and day -- I have both SP1 and Silverlight-chainer installed. But vidoes no longer work under Silverlight and neither does the debugger. Does anyone have a clue on how to solve these problems? ...quadruple clean, rebuild, debugging output settings checked..all settings checked...got rid of compiler generated files...checked ports...but debugger cannot debug the silverlight apps under SP1.

It's really annoying because their is no way back. Please have a look at the last posts in this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/showpost.aspx?postid=3752886&siteid=1&mode=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=1 where I'm trying to rollback to the SP1 Beta. But until now with no luck, because all the Beta bits are not available anymore. Many thanks to MS, sometimes you are really fast - sometimes. So if somebody has the .net 3.5 SP1 Beta standalone installer, then let me know. I'm really in trouble because of this incompatibility.

Installed VS 2008 SP1. Debugger problem single stepping thru C# code. Sometimes lose control of app in single step. Sometimes get an error "Cannot single step. Process not synchronized" We had not problem prior to SP1.

Bob, we're having the exact same seemingly random problem "Process not synchronized" when trying to step through our app. We had not problem prior to SP1 - had you identified an actual cause? ewart at ihug.co.nz