Posters make good conference swag, but they don’t always fit into the suitcase. Fortunately, many of Microsoft’s greatest hits — .NET Framework namespaces, Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 keyboard shortcuts, Silverlight 2.0 Developer References and so on — are available for download on MSDN.

Chris Bowen recently did the world a favor and compiled the most recent .NET reference posters in a single blog entry. As he admits, “I didn’t realize just how many until I searched for ‘poster’ on MSDN downloads.” (For the curious, 22 posters pop up in the search results.)

Bowen points to numerous useful .NET posters, including the aforementioned Namespaces and Silverlight references, keyboard shortcuts for C# 3.0, C++ 2008 and Visual Basic 2008, BizTalk Server 2006 charts and Microsoft Office 2007 features.

Meanwhile, one comment from Bowen’s entry points to the Developer Readiness Program, a South African .NET technology training company. DRP offers dozens of reference posters, with particular attention paid to SharePoint 2007, Team Foundation Server and the .NET 3.0 technologies. In addition, TFS posters are available in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English.

Nearly all these .NET reference posters are rather large, so go find yourself a nice color printer if you intend to redecorate the walls of your cubicle.

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 is now available. This includes updates to MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 so that they can support Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. (Naturally, there are a few Hotfixes as well.)

Joel Oleson, senior technical product manager for the SharePoint group, has put together a blog entry to walk folks through the process of first researching and then downloading the service packs.

Said research includes the brand spanking new TechNet page, SharePoint Products and Technologies SP1 Resource Center, and a white paper that briefly outlines how to install SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. There are also separate documents to guide y’all in the processes of first updating Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and then planning and deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1.

Once you have done the required reading, you can download WSS 3.0 SP1 and MOSS 2007 SP1. (If you are using MOSS 2007, then you need to install WSS 3.0 SP1 first.)

Meanwhile, as per usual, Mary Jo Foley has the lowdown on everything you need to know about Office 2007 SP1.