The team went back to school yesterday at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya.  Actually we gave talks to audiences working in Cyberjaya on new Visual Studio 2008 features. Me and Poh Sze tag team and started the 1st session of the day with the topic “Breakthrough with VS2008″.

Here is the slides on the topics we covered (Hosted on Windows Live Folders)

Features we covered include

1. Ease of Smart Client deployment
2. ASP.NET 3.5
3. Windows Communication Foundation as a unified framework for distributed programming
4. Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) (SQL & XML)
5. Visual Studio Tools for Office
6. Windows Mobile 6 development with connection WCF and LINQ

VS2008 and .NET 3.5 although is just incremental updates to .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 but it comes with such a rick set of features that we can’t cover all in 1 hour and 15 minutes so here are some links for you to find out more

1. Workflow Foundation (http://netfx3.com/content/WFHome.aspx)
2. WPF Composite App Framework (www.codeplex.com/prism)
3. ASP.NET 3.5 Enhancements (http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/)
• Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET MVC Framework
• ADO.NET Entity Framework
4. Client Application Services for Win Form/ WPF (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384339.aspx)

However if you really keen to go deep like Level 300 stuff as regards to Microsoft’s .NET technologies, then better check out Tech.Ed South East Asia 2008 event at KLCC Convention Centre from 11-14 August 2008