1. DotNetSpider Editor Hefin Dsouza
Tour of Visual Studio 2008!
DotNetSpider Editor
Hefin Dsouza

2. Agenda What is .NET and What is Visual Studio?
.NET Framework 3.5 Overview.
Visual Studio 2008 Enhancements.
Language Enhancements
What’s New For Web Application Developers?
What’s New For Windows Application Developers?
What is WPF ?
What is LINQ?

3. What is .NET?
The .NET Framework is Microsoft's platform for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences and the ability to model a range of business processes. The .NET Framework helps you to build applications that work the way you want, in the programming language you prefer.

4. What is Visual Studio.NET?
Microsoft Visual Studio is the main Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop CUI and GUI applications along with Windows Forms applications, Web Sites, Web Applications, and Web Services for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.

5. Journey of Visual Studio.NET

6. .NET Framework 3.5 Overview
The Framework 3.5 is build on the Framework 2.0 and 3.0.
The 3.0 Framework had introduced WPF,WCF,WF and CardSpace to us. 3.5 enhanced these components and included LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5.

7. Visual Studio.NET 2008 Enhancements?
Multi-targeting
Target multiple versions of the framework from a single tool - Visual Studio 2008
Supports framework versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5
Enables only features available in target framework
Toolbox, Project types, References, Intellisense, …
Making is easy to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008
Multi-targeting
Traditionally developers have required tools that are bound to the runtime platform they are building against. With Visual Studio they can now use the one toolset and target the desired platform. 7

8. IDE Enhancements Web Designer, Editing and CSS Support
New Split View mode
View source and design side by side
Updates in Real-Time
Dramatically faster than previous versions
Switch between design, source, or split view with no lag.
CSS Support
Rich CSS Support along with intelligence
Improved Code Editor
Organizing C# Codes.
Code Snippets Shortcuts

9. Language Enhancements
Introduces C# 3.0 & VB.NET 9.0 along with new language capabilities Like
And Many More…
Anonymous Types
Enables you to create instances of a new data type without first writing the definition of the class. Instead, the compiler creates the data type definition based on the properties you specify when you declare the instance.
Extension Methods
Enable you to add methods to a data type from outside the type. The methods can be invoked as if they were ordinary instance methods of the data type
Local Type Inference
The compiler determines the data types of local variables based on the values that are used to initialize them.
Object Initializers
By using object Initializers, you can initialize a complex data object in an expression, without an explicit call to a constructor.
Demonstration Of all these things.
Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices
Module ExtensionClass
<Extension()> _
Public Function ToInt(ByVal a As String) As Integer
Return Convert.ToInt32(a)
End Function
End Module
Class Dummy
Dim num As Integer
Dim val As String
Shared Sub Main()
'Anonymous Types
Dim aClass = New With {.Name = "Hefin", .Address = "Kandivili"}
Console.WriteLine(aClass.Name)
'Local Type Inference
Dim val = "10"
Console.WriteLine(val.GetType().ToString())
'Extension Methods
Dim num = val.ToInt()
Console.WriteLine(num.GetType().ToString())
'Object Initializers
Dim d As New Dummy With {.num = 10, .val = "hefin"}
Console.WriteLine(d.val)
Console.WriteLine(d.num)
End Sub
End Class

10. What is New For Web Applications?
In-Built support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
Included in the .NET Framework 3.5
New ASP.NET AJAX Project Templates
AJAX Controls can be found on
All New JavaScript IntelliSense
Improved and Richer HTML/CSS Designer Support
Split View (simultaneous source and designer)
Improved CSS/HTML layout and visualization in designer
New Web data controls
LinqDataSource, ListView, DataPager 10

11. What’s New For Windows Application?
New Controls For Winforms Applications
Line and Shape controls, the PrintForm component
Visual Studio Designer for WPF (“Cider”)
XAML-based editing directly in the IDE
Changes reflected in the designer in real-time
XAML IntelliSense
Selection Synchronization
ClickOnce deployment support for WPF apps
Project templates, debugger & deployment support
Side-by-side support for Winforms 11

12. What Is WPF?
WPF provides you an extensive graphic functionality you never seen these before. Visual Studio 2008 contains plenty of WPF Windows Presentation Foundation Library templates. By this a visual developer who is new to .NET, C# and VB.NET can easily develop the 2D and 3D graphic applications
Works with XAML!
Sample Application From Microsoft Showing the Potential of WPF
Application I Developed In WPF

13. What is LINQ?
LINQ is a new feature in VS 2008 that broadens great querying capabilities into the language syntax. LINQ introduces patterns for querying and updating data.
The Queries we use in LINQ are known as LAMDA Expressions.
The Core important assembly to use Linq is
System.Linq
Demo

14. Summary
Visual Studio multi-targeting allows you to easily move up to Visual Studio 2008.
LINQ simplifies data access through language extensions for C# & Visual Basic
WPF Designer provides development of rich interface Windows applications which focuses on more Interactive Application Deveopment 14

15. Thank You Some Applications I Developed using Winforms
Rock It Music Player
Recycle Bin Renamer
Have a Look At The Same Applications Developed using WPF

16. Split View Demo
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17. Organize C# Codes
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18. JavaScript IntelliSense
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19. Line and Shape Controls Demo
Launch Application
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20. XAML IntelliSense and Designer
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21. XAML SAMPLE
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22. LINQ Demo
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