Professional Visual Studio 2008
by Nick Randolph and David Gardner
Visual Studio 2008 is an enormous product. Incorporating the latest advances in both Visual Basic and C# as well as improvements and new features in the user interface, it can be daunting without the kind of guidance this book provides.
In this book you'll learn to harness every feature of this remarkable development tool. The opening section will familiarize you with the IDE structure and layout, various options and settings, and other core aspects of Visual Studio 2008. Then you will examine each of the nine major categories composing the functions of Visual Studio 2008. Every chapter is cross-referenced, so you can achieve a complete understanding of each feature and how all the elements work together to produce an effective programming environment.
Table of Contents
Part I: Integrated Development Environment
Chapter 2: The Solution Explorer, Toolbox, and Properties
Chapter 3: Options and Customizations
Chapter 4: Workspace Control
Chapter 5: Find and Replace, and Help
Part II: Getting Started
Chapter 7: Source Control
Chapter 8: Forms and Controls
Chapter 9: Documentation Using Comments and Sandcastle
Chapter 10: Project and Item Templates
Part III: Languages
Chapter 12: Anonymous Types, Extension Methods, and Lambda Expressions
Chapter 13: Language-Specific Features
Chapter 14: The My Namespace
Chapter 15: The Languages Ecosystem
Part IV: Coding
Chapter 17: Code Snippets and Refactoring
Chapter 18: Modeling with the Class Designer
Chapter 19: Server Explorer
Chapter 20: Unit Testing
Part V: Data
Chapter 22: Visual Database Tools
Chapter 23: Language Integrated Queries (LINQ)
Chapter 24: LINQ to XML
Chapter 25: LINQ to SQL and Entities
Chapter 26: Synchronization Services
Part VI: Security
Chapter 28: Cryptography
Chapter 29: Obfuscation
Chapter 30: Client Application Services
Chapter 31: Device Security Manager
Part VII: Platforms
Chapter 33: Office Applications
Chapter 34: Mobile Applications
Chapter 35: WPF Applications
Chapter 36: WCF and WF Applications
Chapter 37: Next Generation Web: Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC
Part VIII: Configuration and Internationalization
Chapter 39: Connection Strings
Chapter 40: Resource Files
Part IX: Debugging
Chapter 42: Debugging with Breakpoints
Chapter 43: Creating Debug Proxies and Visualizers
Chapter 44: Debugging Web Applications
Chapter 45: Advanced Debugging Techniques
Part X: Build and Deployment
Chapter 47: Build Customization
Chapter 48: Assembly Versioning and Signing
Chapter 49: ClickOnce and MSI Deployment
Chapter 50: Web and Mobile Application Deployment
Part XI: Automation
Chapter 52: Add-Ins
Chapter 53: Macros
Part XII: Visual Studio Team System
Chapter 55: VSTS: Developer Edition
Chapter 56: VSTS: Tester Edition
Chapter 57: VSTS: Database Edition
Chapter 58: Team Foundation Server
