Show short cuts in Tool Tips -Missed in VS 2010

We have Show short cuts in Tool Tips option in VS 2008
Tools- >Customize-> Show short cuts in Tool Tips option
I don't see that option in VS 2010.
I am not sure why its turned off.
I have submitted feedback on this here . If at all you want to have the same feature in new VS 2010 IDE and its useful for you, please vote for the feedback.

Incremental Search in Visual Studio I DE

Have you ever used Incremental search in Visual Studio. If not just try it.
Incremental Search is a feature in VS 2010 to search for particular term or keyword in the current document. Here the search is driven by key strokes as it allows you to type for the search term, with out interacting UI.
You can do incremental search by navigating to Edit->Advanced->Incremental Search or
Press Ctrl+I. Start typing the text you are searching for. You'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the same search string:
Pressing ESC or clicking on mouse will stop the incremental search.
The searched term appears in find box as well.
Press Shift+Ctrl+I to navigate to previous.

Happy Coding

Multi Targeting Support in VS 2008

Introduction

Vs 2008 is the MS latest IDE for developing Windows, Web, Smart Device Applications. It comes along with .NET Framework 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and VSTO . Now with the power of VS 2008 we can target multiple versions of .NET Framework.
Installation steps here

VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support:

Previously every VisualStudio release supports its own specific version of .NET Framework.
That is VS 2002 with .NET 1.0
VS 2003 with .NET 1.1
VS 2005 with .NET 2.0
VS2008 now supports 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Frameworks.

For example if we want to run /create /modify ASP.NET 2.0 application from VS 2008, we can easily do that. The advanced features, projects, controls and assembly references that don't work with 2.0 Version of the framework will be hidden. When we build our application we'll be able to take the compiled output and copy it onto a machine that only has a 2.0 version of the .NET Framework installed. No doubt the application works.


And now we will be able to take advantage with our existing projects without having to upgrade our framework/ASP.NET version.

These features are
1. JavaScript intellisence
2. JavaScript debugging that is not possible in previous versions
3. Nested ASP.NET master page support at design-time
4. CSS editing and layout support within designer
5. Split-view designer for having both source and design views open on a page at the same
6. AJAX Control Extender support etc.

Upgrading to new version using VS2008

Click on Project Properties in Solution Exploere. Now Click on Application We can change the "Target Framework" dropdown to select the version of the framework we want the project to target. After selecting the framework will cause VS to automatically update compiler settings and references for the project to use the correct framework version. System.Core, System.Web.Extensions, System.Xml.Linq are the 3 new dll references that are added I 3.5 framework. There are also newly added controls like ListView and LinqDaraSource in VS 2008 . We can see these controls once we upgrade to 3.5 Frame work.
NET 3.5 which delivers new ASP.NET controls/runtime features and provides built-in ASP.NET AJAX support .
We are no longer need to download the separate ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 install as its built-in with the .NET 3.5 setup

Limitation:

Multi-targeting support works with versions .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 only. That means it will not work for .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1 versions. The reason is that there were significant CLR engine changes between .NET 1.x and 2.x. This makes debugging difficult to support. We can run VS 2003, and VS 2002 targeting 1.0 or 1.1 Framework on the same machine as VS 2008.

Conclusion:

Multi- Targeting in VS 2008 is explained clearly
Note
Download VS2008 from here

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Dowload VS 2008 Express Edition!

VS2008 Express edition can be downloaded from the following link (uses Siverlight)

With regards to Web Applications, there are lots of new things

1. Nested Master Page Editing Support
2. Java Script Intellisense
3. CSS Selector APIs
4. Few new server controls – List View, Data Pager and Linq Data Source Controls
5. ASP.NET AJAX Built-in to the .NET runtime

In addition to that ASP.NET “Futures” offers the following things. ASP.NET “Futures” might be shipped as an SP1 shortly.

1. Dynamic Data Websites
2. DLR Support
3. Application Services – Search, Site Maps
4. Silverlight Controls like asp:Media, asp:Xaml
5. AJAX Features – History Support for Safari Browser

Note :Framework Multi-targeting applies to both Win form applications as well as Web Applications
AJAX control Tool KIT is now part of Dotnetframework 3.5
To get an overview of whats in it go through this white paper:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=17319eb4-299c-43b8-a360-a1c2bd6a421b&displaylang=en

You can get summary of each and every feature in Scott's blog

Videos and lessons:
http://asp.net/downloads/vs2008/

VS 2008

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VS 2008 (Previously code named orcas), along with .NET Framework 3.5 almost a new is going to be released in February 2008 officially. How ever msdn subscribers may get it by the end of the year..NET Framework 3.5 is almost new Framework that comes with Lambda Expressions, Anonymous functions, LINQ, DLINQ etc. 2008 Visual Studio Shell, that allow developers to create and distribute custom tools built on top of Visual Studio. One of the nice feature of Visual Studio 2008 is it supports targeting multiple versions of the Framework. That means VS 2001 used to work with only version 1.0 VS 2003 with Version 1.1 VS 2005 with version 2.0only. But in VS 2008 we have the option of selecting the frame work to choose which if we are not at all using 3.0 framework in our applications we can select Framework as 2.0. And also If we are migrating the project from 2.0 to 3.0 then there will not be much overhead. This is called multi-Targeting support. Stay tuned for the upcoming VS2008.
You can download Beta version from here

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