Submission + - Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 released (mcox.com)
Artemis writes: "Microsoft has announced the release of the second beta for both its IDE, Visual Studio 2008, and its platform, .Net 3.5. The betas for both Visual Studio 2008 and the smaller Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions are available to download for anyone who would like to try them out while in beta.
Visual Studio 2008 can be installed along-side Visual Web Developer 2008 Express or Visual Studio 2005, so you can try out 2008 without messing with your current environment. .NET 3.5 Beta 2 also include a go-live license which allows you to build and deploy applications into production.
Some of the new features of VS 2008 Beta 2 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 are:
Visual Studio 2008 can be installed along-side Visual Web Developer 2008 Express or Visual Studio 2005, so you can try out 2008 without messing with your current environment.
Some of the new features of VS 2008 Beta 2 and
- VS 2008 Multi-targeting support: Lets you target multiple versions of the
- VS 2008 Web Designer: A significantly improved HTML web designer — includes split-view editing, nested master pages, and much-improved CSS integration.
- .NET 3.5 ASP.NET AJAX: The AJAX library is now built into the ASP.NET functionality in
- VS 2008 VB/C# Compilers: Now include keywords and capabilities for functional programming, which lets you write cleaner code. The compilers also now include support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query), which makes querying/working with data a first-class concept in
- LINQ to SQL Improvements: LINQ to SQL is an built-in OR/M (Object Relational Mapper) in