A short presentation on some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

1. Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 Lee Englestone presents.. www.manchesterdeveloper.com

2. The Evolution of .NET In the beginning (2002) there was.. From January 2006 there was.. By late 2007 we also had.. And on April 12th the world will know.. .NET 1.0 & 1.1 .NET 2.0 .NET 3.0 & 3.5 .NET 4 & VS2010

3. Agenda Overview VS2010 .NET 4

4. Overview 2 Years in development VS2010 ships with .NET 4 VS2010 ships with MVC 2 VS2010 ships with Silverlight 4 Launch worldwide April 12th

5. VS2010 General Built using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) Can undock windows Allows for multiple monitor development Add reference improved No longer stalls Visual Studio

6. .NET 4 .NET 1.0 Runtime & class library .NET 1.1 Runtime & class library .NET 2.0 Runtime & class library .NET 3.0 Class library .NET 3.5 Class library .NET 4.0 Runtime & class library 4.0 Runtime runs side by side with 2.0

7. VS2010 Intellisense Code behind auto complete (.cs) Code Navigation ‘Navigate To’ Ctrl + comma Highlight multiple instances (.cs) Box selection Snippet auto complete (aspx) Javascript inference

8. Web.config Minimised by default (No need for additional 3.5 references) Multiple deployment configurations Web.Debug.config Web.Release.config Web.XXX.config

9. c# Optional and Named Parameters Optional parameters Public ShowProduct(intproductId = 0, int count=10){ …} Named parameters ShowProduct(productId:10);

10. VS2010 Debugging Pin variables!!! View call hierarchy Step backwards

11. Routing / SEO improvements products.aspx?category=bikes products/bikes Code sample Page.MetaKeywords Page.MetaDescription Response.RedirectPermanent Response.RedirectToRoute IIS 7 SEO Toolkit Plugin

12. ASP.NET WebForms 4 Markup emitted from Server controls tidied up No inline styles by default Improved css designer support Smaller viewstate by default Automatic Html Encoding <%=Heading%> <%: Heading%>

13. Charting Controls Included with ASP.NET 4 (Previously separate download)

14. Modelling (Ultimate version only?) Create sequence diagram Dependency graphs Code gen from UML diagrams Dgml (xml) so can create own diagrams

15. Other features Web deployment packages Can deploy entire site Including running sql scripts and creating databases

16. Summary VS2010 / .NET 4 an exciting release Only covered some of the new features for web development More information http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx