What's new in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 for the Web Developer Come along and find out what's in store for both the ASP.NET platform and Visual Studio in the upcoming release. As web developers, there's a lot to get excited about including many features you can take advantage of in your existing projects. Agenda: Session 1 - Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code named "Orcas") brings with it a host of features for the web developer. In this session, we demonstrate the benefits you can get out of the Visual Studio toolset when working on your existing ASP.NET 2.0 projects as well as for new ASP.NET 3.5 projects. There are many improvements in the IDE so we'll need to focus on JavaScript Intellisense and debugging improvements, the new designer, CSS enhancements and a few more. Session 2 - .NET Fx 3.5 In this session we'll take a look at some of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. New server controls, ASP.NET AJAX integration, not to mention Language Integrated Query (or LINQ), we'll take a look at the lot. And while we're at it we'll see where Microsoft Silverlight fits in the picture For more details and the original slidedeck visit http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/events/new/Detail.aspx?id=108

1. What’s new in ASP.NET 3.5? Mike Ormond Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd [email_address] http://mikeo.co.uk

2. What we’ll look at...

3. ASP.NET AJAX

7. ASP.NET AJAX Support

12. Language Innovations var condiments = from p in products where p.Category == “Condiments” select new { p.Name }; var condiments = products .Where(p => p.Category == “Condiments”) .Select(p => new { p.Name }); Extension methods Lambda expressions Query expressions Object initializers Anonymous types Local variable type inference

13. LINQ

15. Data Access in ASP.NET 3.5

16. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of .NET for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences & rich interactive applications for the Web.

18. Silverlight

21. ASP.NET Futures Release