Visual Studio 2008 provides advanced development tools, debugging features, database functionality, and innovative features for quickly creating tomorrow’s cutting-edge applications across a variety of platforms.

1. What’s New in Visual Studio 2008

5. Visual Studio 2008 and Language Features Overview

34. Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008

66. Building WPF, WF and WCF Applications with Visual Studio 2008

80. Topic: Adding Application Manifest Files in C# Projects Add a New Item into the project 1 Select Application Manifest File from the templates 2 Add an application manifest using Visual Studio 2008 (C# Projects) Define the application's security requirements in the manifest file 3 Access the project Properties window 4 Assign the application manifest file to the Manifest setting 5

94. Visual Studio 2008 Office Development Features

106. Topic: Steps to Create a Custom Office Task Pane Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 1 Create a new project based upon your chosen language 2 Create a Custom Office Task Pane Select the Office  2007 project type 3 Select an Add-in project template (Word Add-in, Excel Add-in, etc.) 4 Add a User Control to the project 5 Drag Windows Forms Controls onto the User Control 6 Add code into the Office add-in class that creates an instance of the User Control and adds it to the CustomTaskPanes class's collection 7

112. Topic: Creating an Outlook Form Region Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 1 Create a new project based upon your chosen language 2 Create an Outlook Form Region Select the Office  2007 project type 3 Select an Outlook Add-in project template 4 Add a new Outlook Form Region item into the project 5 Walk through the Form Region Wizard and select region type, display mode and standard message classes 6 Add controls to the Form Region designer 7