What's New in Visual Studio 2008

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There's even more new in the core Visual Studio 2008 product set... I've pasted below links to a lot of great topics from the msdn library, as a shortcut.

Happy reading!

 

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(NOTE! None of the links below seem to be working... GRRRR! Pasting issues....Click the link above to go to the same thing online, with links that work!)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

  • Settings Migration

  • Community Components

  • Community and Help Menus

  • Window Management

  • Class Designer

Projects and Solutions

  • Web Application Projects

  • AJAX Development

  • Project Designer

  • Deployment

Editing

  • New Design View and CSS Design Tools

  • IntelliSense for Jscript and ASP.NET AJAX

  • Object Browser and Find Symbol Support for Multi-targeting

  • WPF Designer

Data

Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)

Client Application Services

Reporting

  • New Report Projects

  • Report Wizard

  • Expression Editor Enhancement

  • ReportViewer Printing

  • PDF Compression

MSBuild

Other:

  • Target a Specific .NET Framework

  • Multiple Processor Capabilities

  • Enhanced Logging

  • Item Definitions

  • Assembly Location and Name Changes

  • .NET Compact Framework Version 3.5

  • .NET Framework Version 3.5

  • What's New in ADO.NET

  • What's New in Architecture Edition

  • What's New in Data

  • What's New in Deployment

  • What's New in Smart Device Projects

  • What's New in the Visual Basic Language

  • What's New in the Visual Studio Debugger

  • What's New in Visual Basic

  • What's New in Visual C#

  • What's New in Visual C++ 2008

  • What's New in Visual Studio Team System

  • What's New in Visual Studio Tools for Office