Hi folks,

It was very heartening to know that, even in the midst of heavy deluge a huge set enthusiastic professionals had turned up for the Community Tech days.

I was one the honoured to deliver a session on "Know your tools better: Tips and Tricks on how to enhance .Net development using VS2008 and other tools" organised by our esteemed Chennai .Net user group.

This session is basically touchces upon the Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts available in VS2008(inclusive of features existing in 2003 and 2005).   I had explained some of the new features in VS2008.

Some of the highlights of this session are :

• Extension Methods
• Advancement in code snippets
• Addition and Removal of 'using' clause automatically
• Code Analysis
• Code Metrics
• Performance Wizard
• Multi Targetted environment
• SOS.dll
• Multi targetting support
• AJAX support for ASP.NET
• JavaScript Debugging Support
• LINQ Intellisense
• Javascript Intellisense support
• Intellisense Filtering
• Transparent Intellisense
• Design-Code split view
• In built Silverlight Library
• Visual Studio LINQ Designer
• Inbuilt C++ SDK

In summary, VS2008 had been equipped with lots of features that could definetly enhance the productivity .Net development.

Presentation slides will be uploaded soon....

See you with some more interesting stuffs soon.

cheers,

Saran.