2008-10-02 Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Presentation: What's new for Presentation

Presenter: Mike Ormond (http://mikeo.co.uk)

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET website http://www.asp.net
• ASP.NET Videos http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1 
• jQuery Intellisense helper http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx
• ASP.NET AJAX ScriptReferenceProfiler control http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356
• ASP.NET Rotuing http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx
• Dynamic Data @ Mix08 http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24
• Dynamic Data Futures on CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475

Windows Presentation Foundation

• WPF Site http://windowsclient.net
• Channel 9 "WPF Week" videos http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/tags/WPFWeek
• Tim Sneath's blog post on the new features http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx
• Greg Schechter's series on GPU based effects for WPF http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx
• WPF Toolkit Release on CodePlex (DataGrid) http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963
• Shader Effects and SplashScreen project templates on CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962
• Client Profile http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx 

Presentation: What's new in Data

Presenter: Eric Nelson http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel

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ADO.NET Entity Framework

• MSDN Library http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx  
• EF Dev Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons
• FAQ http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx
• Entity Framework Design http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx
• Entity Framework sample project to explore ESQL and LINQ to Entities http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples  
• This tool allows you to play around with Entity SQL eSQLblast

ADO.NET Data Services

• MSDN Library http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx  
• Team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam