A tour of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework v3.5Daniel Moth

Developer & Platform Group

Microsoft

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.NET Through the Ages

2002 2003 2005 2006 2007

Tool(Visual Studio)

VS.NET 2002 VS.NET 2003 VS2005VS2005

+ Extensions

VS2008

LanguagesC# v1.0

VB.NET (v7.0)C# v1.1

VB.NET (v7.1)C# v2.0

VB2005 (v8.0) as beforeC# v3.0

VB9

Framework Libraries

NetFx v1.0 NetFx v1.1 NetFx v2.0 NetFx v3.0 NetFx v3.5

Engine (CLR) CLR v1.0 CLR v1.1 CLR v2.0same

versionsame

version

AGENDA

The no brainer upgrade

VS2008 is a VS2005 superset

Fx 3.5 is a Fx 2.0/3.0 superset

Multitargeting

Developing with C# and VB for

Web, Client, Office, Server, Mobile

.NET Framework v3.5 demystified

Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio in the year 2007

Visual Studio 2005+ Service Pack 1 + SP1 Update for Vista+ WF Extensions + WPF & WCF Extensions+ SharePoint Workflow+ Visual Studio Tools for Office Second Edition+ ASP.NET AJAX Extensions+Device Emulator v2.0 + .NETCF v2.0 SP2+WM 5.0 Pocket PC SDK + WM5.0 Smartphone SDK

Fx 3.5 - “Green Bits” and “Red Bits”

v2.0 RTM

Vista RTM

v3.5 Vista Redist

v3.5 Redist

Multitargeting plus more

Multitargeting in Visual Studio 2008

Top-down exploring

C# 3 and VB9 Language Features

Lambda Expressions

Object (and collection) Initializers

Local Variable Type Inference

Anonymous Types

Extension Methods

Partial Methods

Automatic Properties (C# only)

Relaxed Delegates (VB only)

Web Applications

ASP.NET 3.5

Microsoft AJAX libraries and project templates

ListView, DataPager, LinqDataSource

VS2008 IDE Enhancements

New HTML Editor

– Shared with Expression Web

– Rich CSS support, Nested Master Pages

– Split view with better switching performance

Javascript IntelliSense and Debugging

VS2008 web features

Mobile Applications

NETCF v2.0 SP2 and v3.5

Unit Testing

Cert manager

Config Manager

Device Emulator 3.0

CoreCon wrapper

WM5 SDKs

C#3 and VB9

LINQ

WCF

CLR Profiler / RPM

Compression

Client-side certs

Sound APIs

Windows ApplicationsWindows Forms

ClickOnce For FireFox

UAC Manifests

Consume ASP.NET Provider Services

Consume WCF Services in Partial Trust

Better WPF Interoperablity

Windows Presentation Foundation

Visual Designer Integrated into Visual Studio

XBAP deployment to FireFox

UIElement3D, Viewport2DVisual3D

Windows Apps + VB features

Services (WF and WCF)

Communication Foundation

HTTP without SOAP

– XML or JSON serialisation

RSS + ATOM Support

Partial Trust Support

Workflow

WCF Send/Receive

WorkflowServiceHost

Office Business Applications2003 & 2007 Support

2007 Customisations

Document Level

Application Level

Office Ribbon Designer

Outlook Form Region Designer

Custom Action and Task Panes

Word Content Controls

ClickOnce Deployment and improved Security

VBA <-> VSTO interop

Workflow and SharePoint support

Office development + C# features

Bottom-up exploring

.NET Framework v3.5

Framework v3.5 (green bits)System.Core.dllSystem.Data.Linq.dllSystem.Xml.Linq.dllSystem.Data.DataSetExtensions.dllSystem.Web.Extensions.dllSystem.WorkflowServices.dllSystem.ServiceModel.Web.dllSystem.AddIn.dll, System.AddIn.Contract.dllSystem.Windows.Presentation.dllSystem.Net.dllSystem.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dllSystem.Management.Instrumentation.dllSystem.VisualC.STLCLR.dll

Summary

Visual Studio 2008

Great for Windows Vista

Great for Client Development

Great for Web Development

Great for .NET Framework v3.5

Pretty Cool for .NET 2.0 projects too!

– Multitargeting (and no new CLR)

– Use the new C#3 and VB9 language features

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