What's New in Visual Studio 2008

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