The .NET Micro Framework version 3.0 was released and announced at the Embedded Systems Conference In Boston on Tuesday, October 28, 2008.

What’s new:

• the long awaited Visual Studia 2008 support, and the express edition of C# 2008 is also supported!
• touch screen support, coming with Microsoft.SPOT.Touch.dll assembly to work with stylus and gestures
• inking support, coming with Microsoft.SPOT.Ink.dll with the only user control - InkCanvas
• FAT32 compatible file system, coming with System.IO.dll
• USB Device support, and new Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.UsbClient namespace with UsbController, UsbStream and configuration classes
• SSL support, coming with System.NET.Security.dll and Microsoft.SPOT.Net.Security.dll assemblies, supporting X.509 certificates and SSLv1 and TLSv1 protocols (the emulator does not support SSL yet)
• reworked serial port with DataReceived and ErrorReceived events, hardware flow control and configurable parity and data and stop bits
• fonts with multiple bits per pixel for smooth edges
• MFSvcUtil.exe for generating DPWS client proxies and DPWS Service stubs from WSDL files
• interop support for porting partners, and new, lower-cost porting kit, available at Microsoft Store

You can download the SDK at Microsoft Downloads, and don’t forget to read the release notes.