It's official: Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released by the end of November, Microsoft said at the TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona.

Meanwhile, tools VP Soma Somasegar said the company will remove some license restrictions for Visual Studio to enable developers to use the Visual Studio IDE to build applications that target the platform of their choice.

Microsoft also announced a Community Technical Preview version of the Sync Framework, which focuses on peer collaboration and allows for offline synchronization and data access, and Popfly Explorer, which provides those who use Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 access to Silverlight gadgets built using the Popfly mash-up building tool.

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