Visual Studio & .NET Top 10 additions since 2005 Mike Taulty, Mike Ormond Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd [email_address] [email_address]

Release History

.NET Framework V3.0

Windows Presentation Foundation Rich user experiences on the Windows Platform 1 Designers & Developers Unified API (documents, media, UI) Using Hardware (displays & GPUs) Browser/Desktop

Rich user experiences on the Windows Platform

Windows Presentation Foundation XAML Designer Look, behavior, brand, and emotional connection Developer Function, deployment, data, security, operational integrity VS Project Files

Rich Windows UI with WPF

Windows Communication Foundation Single programming model Crosses paradigms SOAP, REST Crosses protocols HTTP, TCP, Pipes, MSMQ, etc. Open standards or proprietary Highly extensible 2 WCF WCF WCF

Single programming model

Crosses paradigms

SOAP, REST

Crosses protocols

HTTP, TCP, Pipes, MSMQ, etc.

Open standards or proprietary

Highly extensible

Windows Workflow Foundation Tools Components Runtime Services For building “workflow” into your own apps 3

Tools

Components

Runtime

Services

For building “workflow” into your own apps

Combining WCF and WF

Windows CardSpace An identity system built on open standards Identity it a set of standard/custom claims Name, Address, Age, Email, etc. 4 User Website Wants to login Requests Card Issuer: Anyone Claims: Identifier FirstName LastName Email Views (Filtered) Cards Selects Card Sends Card ( Encrypted for Site ) Previews Disclosed Data

An identity system built on open standards

Identity it a set of standard/custom claims

Name, Address, Age, Email, etc.

CardSpace Authentication

Visual Studio 2008

Multitargetting No longer a hard link between Visual Studio and the application’s target framework VS 2008 5

No longer a hard link between Visual Studio and the application’s target framework

Multi-targetting in VS 2008

Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) from data in someDataSource join otherData in someOtherSource on keyExpr equals keyExpr ( into itemName )? let someVariable = someExpression where somePredicate orderby ( expression ( ascending | descending )?)* select expression group expression by keyExpression into itemName .NET Framework V3.5 Language Features ( C# V3 and VB V9 ) Custom Objects XML SQL 6

Manipulating data with LINQ

VS 2008 for Web Applications Helping you build richer, standards compliant web apps Visual Studio ASP.NET 3.5 7 New Designer Integrated CSS Support Javascript Intellisense Javascript Debugging ASP.NET AJAX LINQ Support New Data Controls

Helping you build richer, standards compliant web apps

VS 2008 for Web

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

ADO.NET Entity Framework 8 SQL Provider Oracle Provider ... Entity Provider Conceptual Model Store Model Map ADO.NET API ORM API

ADO.NET Data Services Framework for easily exposing data over RESTful web services Any data but synergy with Entity Framework RESTful == HTTP, XML/JSON with URI’s for querying 9 Customers Products READ CREATE UPDATE DELETE Data Services HTTP GET POST PUT DELETE XML or JSON

Framework for easily exposing data over RESTful web services

Any data but synergy with Entity Framework

RESTful == HTTP, XML/JSON with URI’s for querying

Surfacing data with Data Services

ASP.NET Dynamic Data A scaffolding framework for ASP.NET to enable rapid creation of data-driven websites 10 Traditional ASP.NET Dynamic ASP.NET

Websites with Dynamic Data

The Top 10

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