New in Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 is the version of Visual Studio which comes with the .NET Framework 3.5. It was released to MSDN subscribers on 19 November 2007 alongside the .NET Framework 3.5.

Visual Studio 2008 can target development in .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. Visual Studio 2008 comes with many new feature over Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2008 features a XAML based designer (codenamed Cider), workflow designer, LINQ to SQL designer (for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data), XSLT debugger, JavaScript Intellisense support, JavaScript Debugging support. Here is a list of some of the new features found in Visual Studio 2008.

• Multi-Targeting support
• Javascript Intellisense
• Javascript debugging
• Code editing improvements
• Nested Master Page support
• Web designer and CSS improvements
• New Split View including vertical split
• Enhanced support for the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
• LINQ to SQL designer
• Enhanced XML support
• Support for Silverlight
• Support for WPF
• Support for debugging .NET Framework 3.5 class libraries

Video

• ASP.NET AJAX Support in Visual Studio 2008
• JavaScript Intellisense Support in Visual Studio 2008
• JavaScript Debugging in Visual Studio 2008
  
• IntelliSense for Jscript and ASP.NET AJAX
• Quick Tour of the Visual Studio 2008 Integrated Development Environment

Blogs/WhitePapers

• VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support
• VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense
• VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging
• VS 2008 ASP.NET AJAX Control Extender Support
• VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight
• VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Support
• VS 2008 Nested Master Page Support
• VS 2008 Vertical Split View Support
• VS 2008 Support to Treat CSS and JavaScript Validation Issues as Warnings instead of Errors
• ASP.NET 3.5 ListView Control
• VS 2008 Code Editing Features
• Tip/Trick: Building a ToJson() Extension Method using .NET 3.5
• The C# ?? null coalescing operator (and using it with LINQ)
• Using LINQ to XML (and how to build a custom RSS Feed Reader with it)

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