6. Powerful, modern desktops enable next generation applications Hardware acceleration brings real-time lighting, texturing and rendering Visual Studio 2008 provides the tools for creating beautiful applications New Designer and Controls for WPF Support for vector graphics, lighting, gradients, document flow

8. Office System boasts the largest and most satisfied user base of any application Information Workers are comfortable and familiar with the UI, don’t want to leave Bring business data and application logic into Office to accelerate adoption Visual Studio 2008 has designers that work with Office System 2007 Deployment Ease with Click-Once Connect to Business Applications within Office UI or Custom Task Pane

9. Expand the “Ribbon” Use full power of Office Excel Task Pane linked to business data

10. Breakthrough HTML/CSS/AJAX Tools ASP.NET AJAX Controls minimize post-packs and provide design consistency Cross-browser Compatibility for Broadest Reach End users are expecting more from web applications More intuitive behavior Fewer page navigations Multimedia

11. Contextual in-place updates Intuitive Visually appealing, real time

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14. Enterprises treat their databases separately from applications, designed and maintained by database professionals Visual Studio 2008 Team System includes a new role, Database Professional Design, test and rollback database changes within the development process Version database schemas alongside code and work item change-sets

15. Trend towards Agile development methods and concept of ‘Continuous Integration’ is on the rise Visual Studio 2008 Team System has new build system events to enable “Continuous Integration” Initiate partial integration builds upon check-in Run tests automatically against builds Stability, performance improvements across the board

16. Designer-developer collaboration is unstructured re-work, just a ZIP folder full of graphic design elements Shared projects with Expression Web Shared Project Structure HTML, CSS, ASP.NET assets maintained Support for CSS, XHTML and ASP.NET New editors for Cascading Style Sheets HTML Split View ASP.NET Nested Master

18. Graphic power on desktops raising standards for new user experiences requiring graphic designers Design and Develop Next Generation Windows Applications Share Visual Studio WPF projects with Expression Blend Separation of code and UI elements using XAML Shared UI design elements for Designer/Developer continuity

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22. Client-side JavaScript support IntelliSense™ Cross-browser debugging Split Design and Code View Immediately visualize your changes Cascading Style Sheet management Web 2.0 techniques push Web browser technology to the limit Antiquated development tools Time consuming debugging

23. Tie between.NET Framework versions and Visual Studio requires multiple versions of Visual Studio installed Use Visual Studio 2008 to target.NET Framework 2.0.NET Framework 3.0.NET Framework 3.5 Minimize maintenance and side-by-side issues Visual Studio adapts to Target Framework

24. Changing business rules make for costly maintenance Supporting a heterogeneous services architecture is complex Workflow and Communication Framework support Design workflows for business processes Hook code into workflow events Add web service compliant protocols to your communications Unified programming model for a variety of communications

25. Programming with data presents unique challenges Accessing the data Querying the data Manipulating the data Updating the data Multiple types of data (XML, relational) multiplies the challenge New language extensions unify data query techniques Work with data as objects, a natural part of your programming model

26. Programming with objects Unified Query Constructs across all data XML, SQL Server or Object collections IntelliSense, syntax checking, debugging within Visual Studio (C# and VB)

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29. Install Visual Studio 2008 Download available for MSDN Subscribers Trial version available http://link.comhttp://link.com Download Starter kits, hands-on-labs and videos http://download.vstudio/starterkits Become familiar with LINQ VB and C# tutorials available online Evaluation material at http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio

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33. Property Grid Ribbon Control Toolbox Design Surface