Microsoft released this week Community Technology Previews of its upcoming .Net Framework 3.5 and ADO.Net Entity Framework technologies. A June CTP of .Net Framework 3.5 is available here, following an earlier Beta 1 version. .Net Framework 3.5 features a set of software development technologies including Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Win Microsoft released this week Community Technology Previews of its upcoming .Net Framework 3.5 and ADO.Net Entity Framework technologies.A June CTP of .Net Framework 3.5 is available here, following an earlier Beta 1 version. .Net Framework 3.5 features a set of software development technologies including Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows CardSpace. The framework, due for release by the end of the year, builds incrementally upon the current .Net Framework 3.0. It will be part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2008 developer platform. Other capabilities in .Net Framework 3.5 include Language Integrated Query (LINQ) technology and ASP.Net AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript) for building interactive Web applications.Web protocol support for building WCF services is featured, including AJAX and REST (Representational State Transfer). Tooling support for .Net Framework 3.5 is included as well. New classes in the framework base library address customer requests, Microsoft said. The CTP for ADO.Net Entity Framework includes updates since the Beta 1 release of Visual Studio 2008. Changes have been made in areas such as Object Services, Query and the Entity Data Model Wizard. The CTP is accessible here. Technology Industry