New WCF features in Visual Studio 2008
Tips and tricks, posted: 4-Mar-2008 09:00
With Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), now developers can create interoperable services that send and receive messages between server and client. WCF is based on message based communication and supports many Communication Protocols like TCP, MSMQ, and HTTP etc.
This article discusses some of the new features that Visual Studio 2008 provides us for WCF. This article assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge on how WCF Services are built and used.
You can find more on how to get started with WCF here.
Multi-targeting
Visual Studio 2008 itself has many good and notable features like Refactoring, WPF support etc. and one such feature is also Multi-targeting. With Visual Studio 2008 you can build projects against .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.5.
Yes, one IDE for all the three framework versions! Gone are the days where you had to keep the earlier version of Visual Studio for the earlier .NET versions. Now you can use your Visual (read the entire post)...
This article discusses some of the new features that Visual Studio 2008 provides us for WCF. This article assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge on how WCF Services are built and used.
You can find more on how to get started with WCF here.
Multi-targeting
Visual Studio 2008 itself has many good and notable features like Refactoring, WPF support etc. and one such feature is also Multi-targeting. With Visual Studio 2008 you can build projects against .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.5.
Yes, one IDE for all the three framework versions! Gone are the days where you had to keep the earlier version of Visual Studio for the earlier .NET versions. Now you can use your Visual (read the entire post)...
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Visual Studio 2008 is here!
Visual Studio 2008, posted: 3-Mar-2008 09:00
In three years since the hugely successful release of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has used developer feedback from all over the world to introduce over 250 new features in the 2008 release. As well as making VS even easier to use, these improvements allow developers to make the most of new features in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
Visual Studio 2008 highlights include:
- New and improved visual designers
- The ability to target different versions of the .NET framework
- The introduction of LINQ to make it easy to build data-driven applications
Web developers are well catered for in the new release. Included support for ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight make creating rich interactive web applications easier than ever.
Collaboration was one of the key strengths of Visual Studio 2005, and this release builds on that success. Visual Studio 2008 is a powerful way for development teams to work together at every stage of the devel (read the entire post)...
Visual Studio 2008 highlights include:
- New and improved visual designers
- The ability to target different versions of the .NET framework
- The introduction of LINQ to make it easy to build data-driven applications
Web developers are well catered for in the new release. Included support for ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight make creating rich interactive web applications easier than ever.
Collaboration was one of the key strengths of Visual Studio 2005, and this release builds on that success. Visual Studio 2008 is a powerful way for development teams to work together at every stage of the devel (read the entire post)...
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