Orcas - New Features

Orcas - VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 for Web Development

 

Note:

R      Official name of Visual Studio "Orcas" - Will be called Visual Studio 2008

R      Official name for the .NET Framework "Orcas" - Will be called .NET Framework 3.5

 

 

§          To work with ‘Orcas’ you require to download ‘Visual Studion 2008’

§          This will install below.

o         MS.Net Framework 3.5

o         MS Visual Studio 2008

o         MS Document Explorer 2008

o         MS Web Designer Tool

§          Below are the many of the new improvements for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008

 

New Features - VS2008

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§          Multi-Targeting – This support only works with .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 and not with .NET 1.0 & .NET 1.1

§          Vertical Split View Support

§          Rich CSS Support

·          CSS property window,

·          CSS inheritance viewer,

·          CSS preview, and

·          CSS manager

§          Improved switching performance

§          Support for control designers within source view

§          Richer ruler and layout support

§          Designer support for Nested Master Pages

§          Javascript Intellisense

·          Javascript Type Inference

·          For External Javascript Libraries

·          Within External Javascript Libraries

·          Hints support

·          Debugging

·          Doc Comments

§          Javascript Debugging

§          VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

§          Code Editing Improvments

·          Transparent Intellisense Mode - Just hold down the "Ctrl" key

·          VB Intellisense filtering – Only VB

·          VB LinQ Intellisense – Only VB

·          Organize C# ‘Using’ Statements.

§          Remove Unused

§          Sort

§          Both

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New Features – C# ‘Orcas’ Language Features

 

§          Automatic Properties

§          Object Initializers

§          Collection Initializers

§          Extesnion Methods

§          Lambda Expressions -  p => expressions

§          Query Syntax

§          Anonymous Types

·          Concisely define inline CLR types within code, without having to explicitly define a formal class declaration of the type.

·          Particularly useful when querying and transforming/projecting/shaping data with LINQ.

 

 

LINQ to SQL:

 

§          Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL

§          Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes

§          Part 3: Querying our Database

§          Part 4: Updating our Database

§          Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control

§          Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures

§          Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures

§          Part 8: Executing Custom SQL Expressions

§          Part 9: Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the <asp:LinqDataSource> control

 

ASP.NET in .NET 3.5:

 

§          ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008

§          ASP:ListView Control (Part 1 - Building a Product Listing Page with Clean CSS UI)

§          Using ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders in VS 2008

 

 

Regards,

Arun