Lap Around MS Visual Studio 2008

Around MS Visual Studio 2008

• Darryl Burling
• Developer Evangelist
• http://blogs.msdn.com/darrylburling
• Darryl.burling@microsoft.com

Features

• Multi-targeting Support
• Base Class Source Code Support

Windows Developers

Designer / Developer Collaboration

· Expression Blend

o Control Templates

o Data Templates

o Animate

o Advanced Layouts

o Triggers

· Visual Studio 2008

o Layout

o XAML Editing

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Split View XAML Editing/Design
• WinForms Interop
• ClickOnce

Client Application Services

• Leverage ASP.Net Services on the client
  • Share user authentication and authorization between Client and Web applications
  • Store user settings on the web
• Client Services infrastructure
  • Handles web services communication
  • Provides offline support
• Blah

Services Enhancements

• WCF Project Templates
• Test Clients
• AutoHosting - just press F5
• HTTP Programming support

Syndication

• Managed programming model for Syndication Feeds
  • Creation – from existing data types
  • Consumption – from external RSS / Atom feeds
• Provided in the System.Syndication namespace
• Unified RSS / ATOM Feeds
• Composes with Web programming model

Web Programming Model

• Simple approach for building REST-based services
• The URI is the API i.e. http://localhost/GetOrderStatus/329301
• UriTemplate maps Uri segments to parameters
• Support for XML and non-XML data

Web Development

HTML Designer & ASP.Net Enhancements

• Expression Web WYSIWY designer
• Greatly improved CSS Support
• Vastly enhanced JavaScript support
• Nested master pages
• New server controls
• ASP.Net AJAX baked in

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

• Joint project between Microsoft and the community
• A few dozen controls, more to come
• Three goals:
  • Place to get…
  • Etc…

ASP.NET Futures (July CTP)

• First look at more upcoming features for ASP.NET
  • The will ship as a separate download after 2008
• A few features included in it today:
  • <asp:History> control
  • <asp:Diagnostics> control
  • <asp:media> control
  • <asp:xaml> control
  • CSS Control Selectors support in ASP.Net

Dynamic Data Controls

• <h1>Task List App using Oryz</h1>
• <asp:DynamicAutoData id=”Scaffold” DataContext=”LINQModel” runat=”server” />

Office Development

Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office

• Baked into Visual Studio Professional
• New designers
  • Outlook
  • Ribbon
  • Custom task pane
• ClickOnce support

Creating SharePoint Workflows

• Today – 15 steps
• VSTO 2008
  • Create workflow in VSTO 2008
  • Design the actual workflow code, etc.
  • Press F5

Mobile Development

Mobile Development

• Works side-by-side with Visual Studio 2005
• In-box support for Windows Mobile 4.0 SDKs
• Unit Testing Integration with Visual Studio Team System
• Security Aware IDE
• Device Emulator 3.0
• LINQ

.NET Compact Framework v3.5 – Supported Platforms

• Windows CE 4.2, 5.0, 6.0
• Etc…

Data Access & Programmability

New language features

• LINQ
• Anonymous types
• Implicit types
• + much more…

Visual Studio Team System Product Roadmap

• Capability for building next generation of applications for : Vista, Office 12, Web
• Software Factories
• VSTE DB Pro integration into VS Team Suite
• Updated Language Enhancements

Summary

• WinForms, WPF, WF & WCF
• Web design, JavaScript, CSS
• Office 2007 baked in
• …