Yesterday we kicked off MSDN Live fall edition. First city this round was Oslo, and approximately 600 developers had showed up for a day of great content. I started the day with my two presentations on Visual Studio 2008 and C# 3.0 & LINQ. I'm quite happy with the presentations, I managed to stay within my time limits, Visual Studio 2008 played nice and none of my demos crashed. I promised to post a bunch of links to further information on the topics, so here you go:

Visual Studio 2008

• Visual Studio 2008 Downloads
• Nice VS2008 Code Editing Improvements
• ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS2008
• VS2008 Web Designer and CSS Support
• VS2008 JavaScript Debugging 
• VS2008 JavaScript Intellisense
• VS2008 Nested Master Page Support 
• VS2008 Multi-Targeting Support 
• The format for JavaScript doc comments 
• JScript Debugging in Visual web Developer 2005
• Managing Projects in Visual Studio 2005 & 2008

C# 3.0 and LINQ

• The Evolution Of LINQ And Its Impact On The Design Of C#
• Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL
• Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes
• Part 3: Querying our Database
• Part 4: Updating our Database
• Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP:LingDataSource Control
• Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures
• Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures
• Part 8: Executing Custom SQL Expressions
• Using LINQ to XML (and how to build a custom RSS Feed Reader with it)

I haven't uploaded the PowerPoints yet, but I assume they'll be made available on the Norwegian MSDN site later this fall. I tried to make the slides a bit more interesting by using large illustration and only a few words (not bullet points) on each slide, so the slides them self don't provide that much value. How ever we did record a web cast presentation of both my talks which will be made available online some time mid September. As for the demos I plan to make the code available as guided examples on the blog, perhaps as soon as this weekend.

Feel free to drop any feedback, questions or suggestions in the comments section. Thanks!

Update: One of the things I talked about is support for Visual Studio 2005 projects in Visual Studio 2008. When you try to open your VS2005 solution in VS2008 a conversion wizard will start up. This wizard will convert your projects and solutions. The thing to note is that upgraded projects are still valid in VS2005, but solution files isn't! So the best tip is to create a new VS2008 solution, and then add the projects one by one to that solution, and let the developers select which solution to work on. The projects can still be shared after converting. Read more over at Michael Palermos blog.