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Visual Studio 2008 Training in Ft. Walton Beach Florida


Joe Healy will be presenting Visual Studio 2008 SP1 in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 6pm.

Various enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 include:

  • SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) support
  • The following Visual Basic PowerPack controls:
    • Line
    • Shape
    • Data Repeater
  • Improvements in the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service renaming process in Visual Basic.
  • Document-level features for application-level add-ins in Visual Studio Tools for Office.
  • Design-time support in the ClickOnce application for file name extensions and for Start menu customization.
  • Libraries support for Technical Report 1 (TR1) in Visual C++.
  • Improvements in the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) in Visual C++ to support the appearance and behavior of Microsoft Office.
  • SQL Server 2008 support for Web projects in Visual Web Developer.
  • JavaScript formatting support in Visual Web Developer.
  • Improvements in the WCF Service renaming process in Visual Web Developer.
  • Debugging changes to improve support for inspecting the results of in-memory Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) queries.
  • A new Visual C# feature that provides a richer set of error information about code.
  • The ability of Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) partners to install one copy of files for a package that can be used by multiple isolated applications.
  • The following new features in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Designer
    • Design time support for an Events tab
    • A TabControl control and Expander
    • Code to XAML rename and go to definition functionality.
  • Improvements in Visual Studio Tools for Office System (VSTO) to support add-in error logging.
  • Improvements in XSD Schema Explorer.
  • Changes in the Step Into Specific debugging feature and the Step Filtering debugging feature for managed properties and for managed operators.
  • The ability of the debugger to cancel symbol and source downloading from Microsoft Public Symbol Servers.
  • Streamlined support for Reference Source in the debugger.
  • The ADO.NET Entity Designer to ease data access.
  • The ability to add Local Database Cache to device projects.
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data templates and toolbox controls.
  • IIS 7.0 Managed Module and Handler templates.
  • Support for starting the WCF Test client debug of a WCF Service file (.svc) by pressing F5.

 

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