Let’s Celebrate – Visual Basic 2008

Professor Corinne Hoisington

Less Frustration with VB 2008

Ready to Roll!

Microsoft Academic Alliance

The true added value of Visual Studio is dozens of wizards, smart and context-sensitive popup windows, effective debuggers, and visual designers are examples of facilities that may not necessarily make any code automatically smarter, but still help you focus on key points—skimming over chores, repetitive tasks, and overzealous procedures.

Boosting Developer Productivity

Better Programming

Oodles of Frameworks

.NET Framework 3.5• Visual Studio 2008 can target multi-

framework platforms.• You no longer need to install two or more

different versions of Visual Studio to deal with the various clients and projects.

• At any moment, you can upgrade or downgrade to any of the supported targets.

Express Editions?

Which Languages?

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Can I Convert Older Code?

VB Syntactic Sugar

• MsgBox is back!

• Intellisense is much better!

• Indentation clearer

ASP.NET 3.5

• Visual Studio makes integrating designers into the development process easier.

• Designers can use familiar tools like the Microsoft® Expression® Suite to create UIs and produce files that developers can work with directly in Visual Studio.

ASP.NET 3.5

• Visual Studio makes integrating designers into the development process easier.

• Designers can use familiar tools like the Microsoft® Expression® Suite to create UIs and produce files that developers can work with directly in Visual Studio.

VSTO 2008for Office 2007 and 2003

Smart Device Applications

• Easier ways for developers to build smart clients

• Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 (VSTO) is now fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008

• Better UI with XAML

• Build Windows Vista applications

• Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to handle data more productively

• ASP.NET AJAX enables more efficient client-side execution to deliver a more responsive Web interface

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An Insight into a Developer’s Mind

• “The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”