Now that MiX09 has happened a slew of new beta/CTP releases have flooded the web. Here is the "Download Extravaganza" links to most of those releases:

User Experience

  • SuperPreview, "We built SuperPreview to simplify the process of testing and debugging layout issues across different web browsers and platforms. You can view your pages in multiple browsers simultaneously or view how a page renders in a browser and compare it to a comp or mock-up image of a page."
  • Silverlight 3 Beta Tools and Runtime, "Update includes features such as Live and on-demand true HD (720p+) Smooth Streaming, 60+ controls with source code, Deep Linking, Life outside the browse, and dozens more!"
  • Expression Blend 3 Preview, "Update includes features such as Silverlight 3 project support, C#/VB.NET Intellisense, TFS Integration, and much more"

Controls

  • Virtual Earth Control for Silverlight 2!, "You can finally add the power of mapping right into your Silverlight 2 application using the Virtual Earth control for Silverlight. No more interfacing with HTML version, get all the power and performance you want!"

Frameworks and SDK's

  • Live Framework VS Tools/SDK Update, "finally with support for both Beta Mesh and CTP Development install on the same machine! Also supports Windows 7! Lots of other fixes and improvements"
  • Windows Azure Tools/SDK Update, "Includes new features such as FASTCGI, .NET Full Trust and Geo-Location positioning of your run-time code"
  • ASP.NET MVC V1!,  “Version 1.0 of ASP.NET MVC (alternative to ASP.NET Webforms") has finally hit a production release with version 1 for .NET 3.5. In short ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework, which is desirable in many situations”

General Web Releases

  • Internet Explorer 8 RTW!, "Yep, final version is here. Internet Standard support, Web Slices, Crash Recovery and much more!"