1. Visual Studio 2008 Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group
Microsoft Ltd

2. Agenda Timeline, Packaging Multitargetting Client Development
Server Side Development
Other pieces in .NET Framework V3.5
“Not quite in the Framework V3.5 but...”

3. Timeline, Packaging

4. Visual Studio & Framework Timeline
2007
NetFx 3.5
C# 3.0
VB 9.0
2005
NetFx 2.0
CLR 2.0
C# 2.0
VB 8.0
NetFx 3.0
2006
2003
NetFx 1.1
2002
NetFx 1.0
CLR 1.0

5. Framework V3.5 - Packaging
Fx 3.5
Core
AddIn
...
Fx 3.0
V3.0
WPF
WCF WF
CardSpace
Fx 2.0 V
Bug Fixes

6. Framework V3.5 – New Assemblies
System.Core.dll
System.Data.Linq.dll
System.Xml.Linq.dll
System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll
System.Web.Extensions.dll
System.WorkflowServices.dll
System.ServiceModel.Web.dll
System.Windows.Presentation.dll
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll
System.Management.Instrumentation.dll
System.AddIn.dll, System.AddIn.Contract.dll
System.Net.dll
System.VisualC.STLCLR.dll

7. Multitargetting

8. Client Development

9. Windows Applications Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Forms
Visual Designer Integrated into Visual Studio
XBAP deployment to FireFox
UIElement3D, Viewport2DVisual3D
Windows Forms
ClickOnce For FireFox
Consume ASP.NET Provider Services
Better WPF Interoperablity
UAC Manifests
Consume WCF Services in Partial Trust

10. Windows Development

11. Office 2007 Development 2003 & 2007 Support 2007 Customisations
Document Level
Application Level
Office Ribbon Designer
Outlook Form Region Designer
Custom Action Panes
ClickOnce Deployment

12. Office Development

13. Web Application Development
Microsoft AJAX Libraries
IDE Enhancements
New HTML Editor
Shared with Expression Web
Rich support for CSS
Split view with better switching performance
Nested Master Pages
Javascript IntelliSense
Javascript Debugging

14. Web Development

15. Mobility in VS2008 timeframe
Key Points;
Visual Studio for Devices
.NET Compact Framework 3.5
Device Emulator 3
Windows Mobile 6

16. Server Development

17. Workflow & Communication Foundation(s)
WCF Send/Receive
WorkflowServiceHost
Communication Foundation
HTTP without SOAP
XML or JSON serialisation
RSS + ATOM Support
Partial Trust Support

18. WCF and WF in Framework V3.5

19. Other bits in Fx 3.5

20. Application Extensibility, System.AddIn
Host Application
Possible AddIns
AddIn 1
AddIn 2
AddIn 3
Discovers
Host Services
AddIn Services
Comms
Loads
Isolated Sandbox
AddIn 3
Unloads

21. System.AddIn

22. Networking... Peer Name Resolution Protocol Peer Collaboration API
Name registration
Name resolution
No DNS Server Involved
Peer Collaboration API
Register applications
Discover Peers
Invite them to apps
Pipes implementation
Peer to Peer
P2P Mesh

23. Peer to Peer

24. Coming after Visual Studio 2008

25. ADO.NET Entity Framework
Conceptual Model
.NET Provider
(EntitySQL)
ORM and LINQ
V3.0
Schema independence
Store independence
Higher level constructs
Relationships
Inheritance
Ships post-VS 2008
At Beta 2 Today
Mapping
Store
.NET Provider
V2.0

26. ADO.NET Entity Framework

27. Synchronisation Services
Synchronisation Framework
Online/Offline Applications
2-tier, N-tier architectures
Client Database
SQL Server Compact Edition
Server Database
Any OLEDB compliant store
“Service” Based Approach
Client DB
Server DB

28. Synchronisation Services
Server Sync
Provider
Sync
Agent
Adapters
Client Sync
Sync Table
Sync Group
Client DB
Server DB
Transport
Proxy
Service

29. Microsoft Synchronisation Services

30. Summary Visual Studio 2008 Great for LINQ & .NET Framework v3.5
Great for Client Development
Great for Office 2007 Development
Great for Web Development
Pretty Spiffy for .NET 2.0 projects too!
Multitargeting (and no new CLR)
Use the new C#3 and VB9 language features
2008

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Blogs
There are many more things that we might promote here, examples;
Dev Centres
Security Centre (specifically)
Topical Events such as TechEd, PDC and so on
Success Builder
And many more – I’ve cut the list short for brevity.