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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.

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.

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.

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.

Discover anew why Visual Basic is one of the most successful programming languages in history by exploring some of the new features Microsoft added to Visual Studio and Visual Basic.

In Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services, which leverages the first two. These new options of course, mean that you have new syntaxes to learn. LINQ, which is built into Visual Basic and C#, has one implementation for LINQ to SQL and another for LINQ to Entities. In Entity Framework, you have the option to use LINQ to Entities or make queries in two other ways with Entity SQL…

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

I have replicated Visual Studio's vertical TabStrip control from the ground up. This lightweight control doesn't have containers which you can dump controls onto, as I have created the control to be used with forms instead of containers. Enjoy this 173 code liner.

This application deletes links from the Recent Projects list on the Start page of Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008

Visual Studio Team System 2008 now includes code analysis tools in the Development and Team Suite editions. Using the code analysis feature, your code for managed assemblies can be scanned to ensure compliance with standard programming and design rules.