What's New in Visual Studio 2008

3 Day Training Course London and UK wide

Training formats available

• on-site at your company office UK wide (60 second quote)
• closed group at one of our London training venues (60 second quote)
• near-site at a location close to you
• bespoke one-to-one basis
• tailored training courses to your requirements

Who is this training course suitable for?

This 3 day course is intended for .NET programmers who have experience working with Visual Studio and C#.

Benefits

This course introduces the new development features available in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5. These can be used to create and consume application services, build ASP.NET Web sites, create engaging desktop applications, design workflows. The programming language used will be C#.

Course Syllabus

Creating Responsive Pages with Ajax Why add Ajax controls to your web page? The technologies that drive Ajax Creating partial-page updates with Ajax Scripting actions on the web client The Ajax control toolkit Data Access with LINQ Why do we want LINQ? Coding with: LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects How are query capabilities added to the languages? The new C# language features that support LINQ What is LINQ enabled after VS2008? Windows Communication Foundation - WCF Service orientation Unifying programming models Communicating using contracts Creating, hosting and consuming Windows Communication Foundation services

Windows Presentation Foundation - WPF Why use WPF to create your user interface? How to use XAML to build rich and dynamic screens? The WPF content model Data binding Layout with panels Styles and templates Windows Workflow Foundation - WF What is WF? When to build application using WF? WF definition, designer and runtime Building your own activities The activity component model New Language Features in C# What's New in C#? Implicit Typing of Variables Creating Anonymous Types Using Object and Collection Initialisers Enhancing Classes with Extension Methods Creating Partial Methods The Syntax of Lambda Expressions

What is Microsoft Visual Studio?

Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.