Microsoft Developer Care - Agenda

What's New in Visual Studio 2005 - February 17th

11:30 – 12:00

Lunch

What's New in the Visual Studio IDE

This session will introduce developers to many of the new features found inside of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.  This "language agnostic" overview will cover new features like code snippets, the class designer, and the object test bench in addition to the numerous other usability enhancements found in the VS 2005 environment.  Time will also be spent showing improvements in Intellisense, debugging, and navigating your code.

New Language Features in .NET 2.0

This session will look at new language features found in C# and VB.NET.  The focus will be on features common to both languages, such as generics and partial types, but time will also be spent highlighting some of the more interesting language specific features like VB's My classes and C# anonymous methods.

.NET Futures: LINQ, C# 3.0, and what’s Next

Imagine how difficult your daily life would be if you had to speak French to work with your Human Resources Department, German to work with Finance, and Spanish to speak with management. You’re productivity would drastically drop. But yet, that’s what we do every day. We use our favorite general purpose language for our business objects, SQL for querying data, and XSLT for modifying presentation logic. Wouldn’t we be more productive if we could use our most familiar language for all our work?  That’s the vision behind LINQ, Language Integrated Query. If you use data, you should be able to query it, or transform it, using the language with which you are most familiar. In this session, you’ll see the proposed additions to C# 3.0, and how they support this unified vision of working with data.

4:30 – 5:00  Question & Answer

Stick around to ask questions of the Developer Care speakers.