Hitting the markets with the code name “Orcas”, Visual Studio 8 will prove to be a blast for the developers. Despite being in the beta phase, it has the following striking features:
- Inbuilt .NET 3.5, including ASP.NET Ajax Framework.
- Selection criterion to which .NET version you wish to write codes for.- Visual Studio 2008 introduces large number of features that increases productivity and make the life of developers easy.

Components

.NET 3.5

Unlike its previous versions, Visual Studio 2008 will not target to any one particular version of .NET. The user has been given the privilege to select the .NET version he/she wants to write code for. So what’s new in .NET 3.5? Well, it has all the features of the previous versions stuffed together + ASP.NET Ajax Framework + Full support for core .NET 3.0 functionality. Numbers of templates are here to give you a greater flexibility. Moreover deployment of applications has been made easier.

ASP.NET

Creating stunning sites using Web 2.0 having Ajax built-in is a dream come true for web developers. We have here with us the Ajax Control Toolkit – a set of useful drag and drop controls for web pages that adds lots of functionality without writing a single line of code.

Other Enhancements

LINQ – Language Integrated Query. It’s useful for encapsulating different data sources into objects using a up-to-the-minute modeling technique and then uses the simple LINQ object sentence structure to perform queries in opposition to the model.

Java Intellisense – Useful for writing client-side scripts for web much faster with lesser errors with a provision for debugging afterwards.

Web Designer – Visual Studio 2008 has a fully featured, armed and armored webpage designer with considerably improved, better handling of CSS and XHTML.

In a nutshell, Visual Studio 2008 is a great new release for developers which will lead to better products overall in terms of protection, constancy, consistency and user interface.