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Lets Celebrate Visual Basic 2008

• Professor Corinne Hoisington

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Less Frustration with VB 2008
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Ready to Roll!
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Microsoft Academic Alliance
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Boosting Developer Productivity

• The true added value of Visual Studio is dozens
  of wizards, smart and context-sensitive popup
  windows, effective debuggers, and visual
  designers are examples of facilities that may not
  necessarily make any code automatically smarter,
  but still help you focus on key pointsskimming
  over chores, repetitive tasks, and overzealous
  procedures.

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Better Programming
XAML Editor
Faster
Robust
Vista Applications
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Oodles of Frameworks
Visual Studio 2008
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.NET Framework 3.5

• Visual Studio 2008 can target multi-framework
  platforms.
• You no longer need to install two or more
  different versions of Visual Studio to deal with
  the various clients and projects.
• At any moment, you can upgrade or downgrade to
  any of the supported targets.

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Express Editions?
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Which Languages?
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.NET DeveloperJobs
.Net Developer Job Market Overview, .Net
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Can I Convert Older Code?
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VB Syntactic Sugar

• MsgBox is back!
• Intellisense is much better!
• Indentation clearer

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ASP.NET 3.5

• Visual Studio makes integrating designers into
  the development process easier.
• Designers can use familiar tools like the
  Microsoft Expression Suite to create UIs and
  produce files that developers can work with
  directly in Visual Studio.

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ASP.NET 3.5

• Visual Studio makes integrating designers into
  the development process easier.
• Designers can use familiar tools like the
  Microsoft Expression Suite to create UIs and
  produce files that developers can work with
  directly in Visual Studio.

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Expression Studio
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Silverlight
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Our Students Need More
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VSTO 2008for Office 2007 and 2003
Fully Integrated
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Smart Device Applications
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• Easier ways for developers to build smart clients
  
• Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 (VSTO) is now
  fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008
• Better UI with XAML

• Build Windows Vista applications
• Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to handle data
  more productively
• ASP.NET AJAX enables more efficient client-side
  execution to deliver a more responsive Web
  interface

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Shelly Cashman Institute
VB 2008
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Visual Basic 2008

• Shelly Hoisington
• Over 200 free videos
• Teaches Windows, Mobile, Web, Office 2007, and
  Database Applications
• Available NOW!
• ISBN 1-4239-2714-1
• Software(90 day trial)

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VB 2008 Complete

• Windows, Mobile, Web (ASP), and Office 2007
  Applications
• Based on real-life business applications
• May 14, 2008
• ISBN 1-4354-3221-5  

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VB 2008 Comprehensive

• Windows, PDA, Web, Database (ADO), LINQ, Web
  Services, Cell Phone and Office 2007 Applications
• June 12, 2008
• ISBN 1-4354-3222-3  
• Can be bundled with 90 day trial of Visual Studio
  Pro for free

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Gotta Love IT
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An Insight into a Developers Mind

• The programmer, like the poet, works only
  slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He
  builds his castles in the air, from air, creating
  by exertion of the imagination. Few media of
  creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and
  rework, so readily capable of realizing grand
  conceptual structures.