Gregory RenardRegional DirectorWygwam

Katrien De GraeveDeveloper EvangelistMicrosoft

Enhanced data support Tooling support with Visual Studio for WF, WCF and WPFEnhanced support for interoperability and Web Services standardsBase classes to address the most common customer requests

Powerful, modern desktops enable next generation applications

Hardware acceleration brings real-time lighting, texturing and rendering

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionTools for beautiful applications

New Designers and Controls for WPF

Support for vector graphics, lighting, and document flow

- WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008- HealthCare Project

Building applications to target the Microsoft Office System with the largest user base of any application

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionBring business data and application logic into Office

Visual Studio 2008 designers work with the 2007 Office system

- Creation of a Ribbon- Euro 2008 Excel’lance Project

Data ManagementHelpScoringPrognosticsNews (RSS)Update Project

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaaS

End users expect more from Web applications

More intuitive behavior, Multimedia

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionEnhanced Web Tools

Updated Designers

ASP.NET AJAX Controls

Cross-browser Compatibility

Software + Services Blueprints

Designer-developer collaboration can be unstructured re-work

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionShared projects with Expression® WebShared Project StructureHTML, CSS, ASP.NET assets

maintainedSupport for CSS, XHTML and ASP.NET

Desktop power raises expectation of user experiences

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionDesign and Develop Next GenerationWindows ApplicationsShare Visual Studio WPF projects

with Expression Blend™Separate code and UI elements

using XAML

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolution

Databases lack the change and configuration management tools of development projects

Team Edition for Database ProfessionalsChange and Configuration Management project structureSchema import and exportData generation plans for test dataAutomated deployment

Use Visual Studio 2008 to target.NET Framework 2.0.NET Framework 3.0.NET Framework 3.5

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolution

Multiple versions of the .NET Framework requires multiple versions of Visual Studio

Unique challenges in accessing, querying, updating and manipulating multiple types of data

ChallengeChallenge

SolutionSolutionNew language extensions unify data query techniques

Work with data as objects, a natural part of your programming model

LINQ-enabled data sourcesLINQ-enabled data sources

LINQ LINQ To ObjectsTo Objects

LINQ LINQ To XMLTo XML

LINQ-enabled ADO.NETLINQ-enabled ADO.NET

Visual BasicVisual Basic OthersOthers

LINQ LINQ To EntitiesTo Entities

LINQ LINQ To SQLTo SQL

LINQ LINQ To DatasetsTo Datasets

.Net Language Integrated Query (LINQ).Net Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

Visual C#Visual C#

ObjectsObjects DatabasesDatabases

- Introduction to LINQ (Languages Features)- LINQ Samples

Linq = Linq = LLanguage anguage ININtegrated tegrated QQueryuery

Samples in Visual Studio 2008 (Help)MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/

MSDN BELUX: http://www.msdn.be Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit:http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397