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Visual Studio 2008 & .Net Framework 3.5 Features 

The newley introduced .NET Framework 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008  provides developers to rapidly create applications that deliver high quality and rich user experiences. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 contains a ton of new functionality and improvements which enables organizations of every size to rapidly create secure, manageable, and reliable applications that are optimized for Windows Vista™, SQL Server and the Web.

Visual Studio .NET based Windows application benefits from increased WPF designer performance.  Web development improvements include enhanced features like JavaScript IntelliSense, JavaScript Debugging,supports SQL Server 2008, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services. It provides more powerful new graphics for the development and provides very rich data scaffolding. 

The .NET 3.5 Framework SP1 delivers the following:

• Increased Performance for WPF based applications, without having to change any code
• WCF improvements that give developers more control over the way they access data and services
• Improvements such as the ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework  and support for SQL Server 2008
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data to facilitate rapid data driven development  

New Features of Visual studio 2008 and .Net 3.5:

1. Visual Studio 2008 Multi-Targeting Support.   

– .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5

2.VS 2008 CSS Web Designer and CSS Support

3.ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support 

   . Visual Studio 2008 Javascript Intellisense
   • Visual Studio 2008 JavaScript Debugging.
   • Visual Studio 2008 CSS Web Designer and CSS Support
   • Visual Studio 2008 Vertical Split View Support

4.ADO.NET Entity Framework

5.ADO.NET Data Services

6.ASP.NET Dynamic Data Priview

7.Language Improvements and LINQ 

    • Anonymous Types
    • Extension Methods
    • Lambda Expressions
    . LINQ to Data Sets
    • LINQ to SQL
    • LINQ to XML
    • LINQ to Objects

 Some of Other Visual Studio 2008 Features are:   

    • In-built Silverlight Library
     . Windows Communication Foundation Support
    • Windows Presentation Foundation Support and WPF improvements
    • Inbuilt AJAX Extender Controls
    • Intellisense Improvements in visual studio 2008
    • In-built C++ SDK
    • Nested ASP.NET Master Pages