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Visual Studio 2008 also comes with the DataSet Designer, a visual tool used for creating and
manipulating typed DataSets and the associated items of which the datasets are made, providing
a visual image of the objects within the DataSets.
LINQ will be released in the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, currently
slated for version 3.5. Because much of the LINQ functionality is based on the new features of the
.NET Framework, this chapter explores those features and enhancements that help support LINQ
and provide LINQ with the foundation it needs from a language perspective. It looks at the new
language-specific features in both C# and Visual Basic .NET.
Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio has come a long way since its inception in 1997. Visual Studio 97 hit the street with
the goals of enabling developers to share and see large projects through a complete development
cycle regardless of the different languages and deployment schemes.
That was followed up by Visual Studio 6.0 with its integrated development environment and
built-in data designers for architecting large-scale and multi-tier applications, with the goals of
supporting distributed and heterogeneous environments and architectures.
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