Re: vs.net 2008 - wheres the beef?

I'm quite ready to start using VS 2008.  We've not started using it here
quite yet, but we are slated to start it soon.
The biggest programmatic features I see are:

Extension Methods
Lambda Express (new syntax for C#)
LINQ
Anonymous types
Object/collection initializers


On Dec 20, 2007 12:03 PM, Scott Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a number of articles here that talk more about the VS 2008 and .NET
> 3.5 feature-set:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx
>
> Some of the focused VS 2008 ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> improvements
> include:
>
> JavaScript Intellisense and Debugging
> CSS Styling Support
> Split View Designer
> Much faster design-time support
>
> There are obviously many other tool and runtime improvements (language
> additions, LINQ, new ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> controls, etc) as well.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Evans
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
>  Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] vs.net 2008 - wheres the beef?
>
> Completely painless. I copy the project files from the 2005 projects
> folder
> to the 2008 folder, open and go.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Aurit
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: vs.net 2008 - wheres the beef?
>
> Has anyone brought vs.net 20005 solutions with web apps into 2008?  Does
> it have a new web project type, like 2005 did to us?  That is a pain Im
> not eager to experience again.
>
> Mark Aurit wrote:
> > Does anyone have a good link to what vs.net 2008 has for developers, esp
> > asp.net developers?  All Ive seen is the usual blah-blah-blah plus
> > LINQ and Silverlight.  Neither of which seems compelling to me, at least
> > right now (kinda like Vista).
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