WCF and WF are relatively new technologies which have received some significant updates for Visual Studio 2008. For WCF, the most visible update is the new tooling that enables developers to be more productive in creating and testing services. For WF, many of the improvements revolve around integration with WCF.[more ]

Office 2007 introduced a new, XML-based file format for Office. With LINQ to XML, Microsoft offers the ability to use language-based query against XML documents. These two technologies, you have the ability to search and manipulate Office documents in a completely new way.…[more ]

The WPF designer in Visual Studio 2008 has been radically improved from the

one that found its way into Visual Studio 2005 following the release of .NET 3.0.

Capable and intuitive, the designer allows developers to accomplish many tasks

through graphical manipulation, whereas before nearly everything had to be done

by hand-coding XAML. Productivity takes a huge step forward with the time

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Multi-targeting is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows developers to choose which .NET Framework they want to target for a given project. Available choices are 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5, and you may change your selection after a project has already been created. The IDE filters selectable features and the build system generates appropriate warnings based on whether a particular feature is available in the target platform.

The purpose of this demo/lab is to …[more ]