LINQ, C# 3.0, VS2008 Beta2

 

Spec: C# Language Specification Version 3.0

Samples and HOL:

• LINQ and language samples for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
• LINQ Hands On Labs
• C# 3.0 Language Enhancements Hands On Lab
• Visual Studio 2008 Samples Download Page.

 

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VS 2008 IDE

 

• Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements
• Transparent Intellisense Mode
• Organize Using Statements

• VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Support
• Split View Editing



• CSS Style Manager
• CSS Properties Window
• CSS Source View Intellisense
• Nested Master Page Support

 

• Enabling Vertical Split View in VS 2008

 

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ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008

 

ASP.NET AJAX included in .NET 3.5

 Starting with the .NET Framework 3.5 release, all of these features are built-in with ASP.NET, which means you no longer have to download and install a separate ASP.NET AJAX setup when building or deploying applications.

When you create a new ASP.NET application or web-site in VS 2008 that targets the .NET 3.5 framework, VS will automatically add the appropriate AJAX registrations in your web.config file and the core ASP.NET AJAX server controls will show up in your toolbox.

The version of ASP.NET AJAX that ships with .NET 3.5 has a number of nice improvements to it – including support for using UpdatePanels with WebParts, support for WCF based JSON end-points, support for using the ASP.NET Profile, Role and Login Application Services using JavaScript, and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. 

ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008

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VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight From ScottGu

 

• VS2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

• Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense CodePlex Project from Justin-Josef Angel
  • Tutorial

To use it, simply add his JavaScript library to the top of your page:

You can then use Justin’s helper functions to take late-bound objects and indicate their JavaScript type:

This will then cause the VS 2008 JavaScript intellisense engine to automatically provide intellisense and syntax checking for you:

 

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LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer in VS 2008 From ScottGu

 

Using the LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer

One of the nice development features that LINQ to SQL supports is the ability to use a “debug visualizer” to hover over a LINQ expression while in the VS 2008 debugger and inspect the raw SQL that the ORM will ultimately execute at runtime when evaluating the LINQ query expression.

For example, assume we write the below LINQ query expression code against a set of data model classes:

We could then use the VS 2008 debugger to hover over the “products” variable after the query expression has been assigned:

And if we click the small magnifying glass in the expression above, we can launch the LINQ to SQL debug visualizer to inspect the raw SQL that the ORM will execute based on that LINQ query:

If you click the “Execute” button, you can even test out the SQL query and see the raw returned results that will be returned from the database:

This obviously makes it super easy to see precisely what SQL query logic LINQ to SQL ORM is doing for you. 

You can learn even more about how all this works by reading the Part 3: Querying our Database segment in my LINQ to SQL series above.

How to Install the LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer

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LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer

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