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With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the .NET Compact Framework. The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 adds new APIs and, most notably, it now supports the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) features that are standard on the .NET Framework (the WCF feature will be covered in more depth in an upcoming article). On the Visual Studio 2008 front, there are new tools to make testing and development work much easier and robust.

An important new feature of MS SQL Server 2008 that provides a true auditing solution - SQL Server Audit.

On November 19, 2007, Microsoft officially released the ASP.NET version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Like with the progression from ASP.NET 2.0 to 3.0, the features in ASP.NET 3.5 are additive, meaning that the core assemblies installed from the .NET Framework version 2.0 are still used by the 3.0 and 3.5 versions. The In short, ASP.NET 3.5 doesn't change or take away or break any functionality, concepts, or code present in 2.0 - it simply adds new types and features and capabilities to the framework.

This article provides an overview of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 and the new web/ASP.NET-related features in Visual Studio 2008.

Steps to configure your Visual Studio 2008 to invoke Google search from within the IDE.

In Team Build 2008, while writing a build definition we need to hard-code a build agent attached to this build definition. In cases, when the builds are queued automatically depending on its triggers, it gets queued to this hard-coded build agent. This raises a major problem that there are multiple free / not-busy build agents dedicated for the team project but still there are multiple builds queued on a single build agent waiting for their turn till the other builds get completed. So we need some load balancing mechanism between the build agents, which is technically called as Build Controller in TFS 2010. But there are no direct ways to work out with this challenge with Team Build 2008. This article shows how to balance the load between build agents in Team Build 2008.

After a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I?d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.

Visual Studio tools for office 2008 provides variety of workflow templates. Ofcourse, these workflow templates are based on Windows Workflow foundation (WF) . Continuing the efforts of integrating the other technologies usage and making the Visual Studio as a single UI IDE for developing various components of different technology, Microsoft have came up with few workflow templates specific for SharePoint in Visual Studio tools for office. This article will give you sneak preview about the sharepoint workflows and also provide details on why should we use the sharepoint workflow templates of Visual studio 2008.

SQL Server 2008 introduces four new date data types: time, date, datetime2, and datetimeoffset.

This article explores the time and date data types and shows how they can be used and formatted from within an ASP.NET page. This article also includes a short discussion on the datetime2 and datetimeoffset and compares and constrasts SQL Server 2008's six different date data types.

In the last Baker’s Dozen article, I demonstrated 13 SSIS packages to show what Integration Services can do. This article picks up where the last one left off. I’ll show some capabilities in SSIS, such as handling irregular input files, extracting database changes, implementing package configurations, and leveraging the advanced lookup features in SSIS 2008.

rewarding experience of writing and speaking is taking a seemingly complex topic and making it more understandable and accessible. In this article, I’ll show how to create and use OLAP databases and cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 (SSAS 2008). The benefits of OLAP are significant, even monumental - but like most technologies, reaping the benefits means considerable research and effort into leveraging the tools. In the case of OLAP databases, developers need to learn the differences between OLAP databases and relational databases, and how to use the tools that SSAS provides. In this article, I’ll walk through how to create an OLAP database and how to use the tools in Analysis Services to enhance the OLAP database. By the end, you’ll see why businesses and other organizations see the value of OLAP databases. I’ll also briefly cover some of the plans Microsoft has announced for the next generation of OLAP tools.