This document summarizes new features in SQL Server 2008 for .NET developers, including spatial data support, BLOB storage using Filestream, enhancements to T-SQL, new date/time types, improved integration with Visual Studio, and business intelligence tools like SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS. It provides overviews of key concepts like spatial data types, using Filestream for BLOB storage, table-valued parameters, new date/time functionality, MERGE statements, shorthand notation in T-SQL, Entity Framework, SQL CLR, and Reporting Services.