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Today, Visual Studio 2008 focuses on providing developers with a rich experience for Windows Vista, the
web, and Office 2008, while continuing to improve its development languages and innovations. Visual
Studio 2008 contains a number of new features, including C# and Visual Basic .NET language features,
improved data features such as multi-tier support for typed datasets and hierarchical update capabilities,
and a web application project model.
However, the most exciting new feature of Visual Studio 2008 (in my opinion) is LINQ, Microsoft??™s
new Language Integrated Query, which extends powerful query capabilities into your favorite .NET
programming language.
When you first start Visual Studio 2008 (see Figure 2-1), it looks much like the previous versions of
Visual Studio.
On the surface, this might not be very impressive, but did previous versions ofVisual Studio let you pick
which version of the .NET Framework you wanted to create your projects with? No!
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Chapter 2: A Look at Visual Studio 2008
Figure 2-1
When you create a project in the new Visual Studio, you will notice something different in the New
Project dialog box (see Figure 2-2), the addition of a ??????version??™??™ button in the top right.
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