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Professional Visual Studio® 2008

By Nick Randolph David Gardner

Professional Visual Studio® 2008

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Introduction xxxvii

Part I: Integrated Development

Environment Chapter 1: A Quick T our 3

Chapter 2: The Solution Explorer ,

Toolbox, and Proper ties 13 Chapter 3: Options and

Customizations 31 Chapter 4: W orkspace Control 47

Chapter 5: F ind and Replace, and Help 63

Part II: Getting Star ted

Chapter 6: Solutions, Projects,

and Items 83 Chapter 7: Source Control 107

Chapter 8: F orms and Controls 117

Chapter 9: Documentation Using

Comments and Sandcastle 131 Chapter 10: Project and

Item Templates 151 Part III: Languages

Chapter 11: Generics, Nullable Types,

Partial Types, and Methods 171 Chapter 12: Anonymous Types,

Extension Methods, and Lambda Expressions 187 Chapter 13: Language-Specific

and Refactoring 255 Chapter 18: Modeling with the

Class Designer 275 Chapter 19: Ser ver Explorer 289 Chapter 20: Unit T esting 305 Part V: Data

Chapter 21: DataSets and

DataBinding 325 Chapter 22: V isual Database T ools 365 Chapter 23: Language Integrated

Queries (LINQ) 383 Chapter 24: LINQ to XML 393 Chapter 25: LINQ to SQL and

Entities 403 Chapter 26: Synchronization

Services 417 Part VI: Security

Chapter 27: Security in the

.NET Framework 435 Chapter 28: Cr yptography 447 Chapter 29: Obfuscation 469

Services 481

Chapter 31: Device Security Manager 495

Part VII: Platfor ms Chapter 32: ASP.NET W eb Applications 505

Chapter 33: Office Applications 547

Chapter 34: Mobile Applications 567

Chapter 35: WPF Applications 595

Chapter 36: WCF and WF Applications 609

Chapter 37: Next Generation W eb: Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC 625

Part VIII: Configuration and Internationalization Chapter 38: Configuration F iles 649

Chapter 39: Connection Strings 667

Chapter 40: Resource F iles 677

Part IX: Debugging Chapter 41: Using the Debugging Windows 697

Chapter 42: Debugging with Breakpoints 711

Chapter 43: Creating Debug Proxies and Visualizers 723

Chapter 44: Debugging Web Applications 735

Techniques 751

Part X: Build and Deplo yment Chapter 46: Upgrading with V isual Studio 2008 769

Chapter 47: Build Customization 777

Chapter 48: Assembly V ersioning and Signing 795

Chapter 49: ClickOnce and MSI Deployment 803

Chapter 50: Web and Mobile Application Deployment 825

Part XI: Automation Chapter 51: The Automation Model 839

Chapter 52: Add-Ins 849

Chapter 53: Macros 867

Part XII: Visual Studio T eam System Chapter 54: VSTS: Architect Edition 881

Chapter 55: VSTS: De veloper Edition 891

Chapter 56: VSTS: T ester Edition 903

Chapter 57: VSTS: Database Edition 911

Chapter 58: Team Foundation Server 923

Professional Visual Studio® 2008

Professional Visual Studio® 2008

By Nick Randolph David Gardner

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Professional V isual Studio® 2008

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About the Author s

Nick Randolph is currently the Chief Development Officer for N Squared Solutions, having recently left

his role as lead developer at Intilecta Corporation where he was integrally involved in designing and building that firm ’ s application framework

After graduating with a combined Engineering (Information Technology)/Commerce degree, Nick went

on to be nominated as a Microsoft MVP in recognition of his work with the Perth NET user group and his focus on mobile devices He is still an active contributor in the device application development space via his blog at http://community.softteq.com/blogs/nick/ and via the Professional Visual Studio web site, http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/

Over the past two years, Nick has been invited to present at a variety of events including Tech Ed Australia, MEDC, and Code Camp He has also authored articles for MSDN Magazine (ANZ edition)

and a book entitled Professional Visual Studio 2005 , and has helped judge the 2004, 2005, and 2007 world

finals for the Imagine Cup

David Gardner is a seasoned.NET developer and the Chief Software Architect at Intilecta Corporation

David has an ongoing passion to produce well - designed, high - quality software products that engage and delight users For the past decade and a bit, David has worked as a solutions architect, consultant, and developer, and has provided expertise to organizations in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia

David is a regular speaker at the Perth NET user group, and has presented at events including the NET Framework Launch, TechEd Malaysia, and the Microsoft Executive Summit He holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

David regularly blogs about Visual Studio and NET at http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/ , and maintains a personal web site at http://peaksite.com/

Guest Author s

Miguel Madero

Miguel Madero is a Senior Developer with Readify Consulting in Australia Miguel has architected

different frameworks and solutions for disconnected mobile applications, ASP.NET, and Distributed Systems, worked with Software Factories, and trained other developers in the latest Microsoft technologies Miguel was also the founder of DotNetLaguna, the NET User Group in Torre ó n, Coahuila,

M é xico In his spare time Miguel enjoys being with his beautiful fianc é e, Carina, practicing rollerblading, and trying to surf at Sydney ’ s beaches You can find Miguel ’ s blog at http://www.miguelmadero.com/ Miguel wrote Chapters 54 through 58 of this book, covering Visual Studio Team Suite and Team

Foundation Server

Keyvan Nayyeri

Keyvan Nayyeri is a software architect and developer with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied

Mathematics Keyvan ’ s main focus is Microsoft development and related technologies He has published articles on many well - known NET online communities and is an active team leader and developer for several NET open - source projects

Keyvan is the author of Professional Visual Studio Extensibility and co - authored Professional Community

Server , also published by Wrox Press You can find his thoughts on NET, Community Server and

Technology at http://www.nayyeri.net/

Keyvan was a guest author on this book, writing Chapters 51 through 53 on Visual Studio Automation

Joel Pobar

Joel Pobar is a habituated software tinkerer originally from sunny Brisbane, Australia Joel was a

Program Manager on the NET Common Language Runtime team, sharing his time between late - bound

dynamic CLR features (Reflection, Code Generation), compiler teams, and the Shared Source CLI

program (Rotor) These days, Joel is on sabbatical, exploring the machine learning and natural language

processing worlds while consulting part - time for Microsoft Consulting Services You can find Joel ’ s

recent writings at http://callvirt.net/blog/

Joel lent his expertise to this book by authoring Chapter 15 on the Languages Ecosystem

Acknowledgments

I was expecting that writing the second edition of this book would be relatively straightforward — a little tweak here and a bit extra there — but no, the reality was that it was again one of the most time - demanding exercises I ’ ve undertaken in recent years I must thank my partner, Cynthia, who consistently encouraged me to “ get it done, ” so that we can once again have a life

I would especially like to thank everyone at Wrox who has helped me re - learn the art of technical writing — in particular, Bill Bridges, whose attention to detail has resulted in consistency throughout the book despite there being five authors contributing to the process, and Katie Mohr (whose ability to get

us back on track was a life - saver), who made the whole process possible

I have to pass on a big thank you to my co - author, David Gardner, who agreed to work with me on the second edition of this book I doubt that I really gave an accurate representation of exactly how much work would be involved, and I really appreciated having someone of such high caliber to bounce ideas off of and share the workload As we approached the mid - point of this book, I really appreciated a number of guest authors stepping in to help ensure we were able to meet the deadline So a big thanks to Keyvan Nayyeri, Miguel Madero, and Joel Pobar for their respective contributions

Lastly, I would like to thank all of my fellow Australian MVP developers and the Microsoft staff (Dave Glover and Andrew Coates particularly), who were always able to answer any questions along the way

— Nick Randolph

This book represents one of the most rewarding and challenging activities I ’ ve ever undertaken Writing while maintaining a full - time job is certainly not for the fainthearted However, in the process I have amassed a wealth of knowledge that I never would have found the time to learn otherwise

The process of writing a book is very different from writing code, and I am especially thankful to the team at Wrox for helping guide me to the finish line Without Katie Mohr and Bill Bridges working as hard as they did to cajole the next chapter out of us, we never would have gotten this finished Katie put her trust in me as a first - time author, and fully supported our decisions regarding the content and structure of the book Bill improved the clarity and quality of my writing and corrected my repeated grammatical transgressions and Aussie colloquialisms It was a pleasure to be in such experienced hands, and I thank them both for their patience and professionalism

A huge thank you goes to my co - author Nick Randolph, who invited me to join him in writing this book, and managed to get us organized early on when I had very little idea what I was doing I enjoyed collaborating on such a big project and the ongoing conversations about the latest cool feature that we ’ d just discovered

Much appreciation and thanks go to our guest authors, Keyvan Nayyeri, Miguel Madero, and Joel Pobar, whose excellent contributions to this book have improved it significantly Also thanks to my fellow

coffee drinkers and NET developers, Mitch Wheat, Michael Minutillo, and Ola Karlsson, for their

feedback and suggestions on how to improve various chapters

Most of all I would like to thank my beautiful and supportive wife, Julie She certainly didn ’ t know what

she was getting herself into when I agreed to write this book, but had she known I ’ ve no doubt that she

would still have been just as encouraging and supportive Julie did more than her fair share for our

family when I needed to drop almost everything else, and I am truly grateful for her love and friendship

Finally, thanks to my daughters Jasmin and Emily, who gave up countless cuddles and tickles so that

Daddy could find the time to write this book I promise I ’ ll do my best to catch up on the tickles

that I owe you, and pay them back with interest

— David Gardner

Introduction xxxvii

Other Options 39

Summary 105

Accessing Source Control 109

Summary 228

Summary 238

Summary 253

Code Snippets Manager 260

Summary 273

Summary 288

Summary 322

Validation 346

Summary 363

Summary 416

Summary 432

Chapter 28: Cr yptography 447

Techniques 448

Starter Kits, Community Projects, and Open-Source Applications 512

Summary 546

Chapter 33: Office Applications 547

Summary 565

Summary 607

Model-View-Controller 635

Summary 645

Summary 665

Summary 676

Summary 694

Tracepoints 717

Summary 775

Chapter 48: Assembly V ersioning and Signing 795

Summary 836

The Automation Model and V isual Studio Extensibility 841

Debugging 864 Deployment 864

Deployment 877 Summary 878

Chapter 55: VSTS: De veloper Edition 891

Summary 946 Index 947

Introduction

Visual Studio 2008 is an enormous product no matter which way you look at it Incorporating the latest advances in Microsoft ’ s premier programming languages, Visual Basic and C#, along with a host of improvements and new features in the user interface, it can be intimidating to both newcomers and experienced NET developers

Professional Visual Studio 2008 looks at every major aspect of this developer tool, showing you how to

harness each feature and offering advice about how best to utilize the various components effectively

It shows you the building blocks that make up Visual Studio 2008, breaking the user interface down into manageable chunks for you to understand

It then expands on each of these components with additional details about exactly how it works both in isolation and in conjunction with other parts of Visual Studio to make your development efforts even more efficient

Who This Book Is F or

Professional Visual Studio 2008 is for all developers new to Visual Studio as well as those programmers

who have some experience but want to learn about features they may have previously overlooked

If you are familiar with the way previous versions of Visual Studio worked, you may want to skip Part I, which deals with the basic constructs that make up the user interface, and move on to the remainder of the book where the new features found in Visual Studio 2008 are discussed in detail

If you ’ re just starting out, you ’ ll greatly benefit from the first part, where basic concepts are explained and you ’ re introduced to the user interface and how to customize it to suit your own style

This book does assume that you are familiar with the traditional programming model, and it uses both the C# and Visual Basic languages to illustrate features within Visual Studio 2008 In addition, it is assumed that you can understand the code listings without an explanation of basic programming concepts in either language If you ’ re new to programming and want to learn Visual Basic, please take a

look at Beginning Visual Basic 2008 by Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome Similarly, if you are after a great book on C#, track down Beginning Visual C# 2008, written collaboratively by a host of authors

What This Book Co vers

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is arguably the most advanced integrated development environment (IDE) available for programmers today It is based on a long history of programming languages and interfaces and has been influenced by many different iterations of the theme of development environments

The next few pages introduce you to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, how it came about, and what it can

do for you as a developer If you ’ re already familiar with what Visual Studio is and how it came to be,

you may want to skip ahead to the next chapter and dive into the various aspects of the integrated

development environment itself

A Brief History of Visual Studio

Microsoft has worked long and hard on its development tools Actually, its first software product was a

version of BASIC in 1975 Back then, programming languages were mainly interpretive languages in which

the computer would process the code to be performed line by line In the past three decades, programming

has seen many advances, one of the biggest by far being development environments aimed at helping

developers be efficient at producing applications in their chosen language and platform

In the 32 - bit computing era, Microsoft started releasing comprehensive development tools, commonly

called IDEs (short for integrated development environments), which contained not just a compiler but

also a host of other features to supplement it, including a context - sensitive editor and rudimentary

IntelliSense features that helped programmers determine what they could and couldn ’ t do in a given

situation Along with these features came intuitive visual user interface designers with drag - and - drop

functionality and associated tool windows that gave developers access to a variety of properties for the

various components on a given window or user control

Initially, these IDEs were different for each language, with Visual Basic being the most advanced in terms

of the graphical designer and ease of use, and Visual C++ having the most power and flexibility Under

the banner of Visual Studio 6, the latest versions of these languages were released in one large

development suite along with other “ Visual ” tools such as FoxPro and InterDev However, it was

obvious that each language still had a distinct environment in which to work, and as a result,

development solutions had to be in a specific language

One Comprehensive Environment

When Microsoft first released Visual Studio NET in 2002, it inherited many features and attributes of the

various, disparate development tools the company had previously offered Visual Basic 6, Visual InterDev,

Visual C++, and other tools such as FoxPro all contributed to a development effort that the Microsoft

development team mostly created on its own The team had some input from external groups, but Visual

Studio NET 2002 and NET 1.0 were primarily founded on Microsoft ’ s own principles and goals

Visual Studio NET 2003 was the next version released, and it provided mostly small enhancements and

big fixes Two years later, Visual Studio 2005 and the NET Framework 2.0 were released This was a

major new edition with new foundation framework classes that went far beyond anything Microsoft had

released previously However, the most significant part of this release was realized in the IDE where the

various components fit together in a cohesive way to provide you with an efficient tool set where

everything was easily accessible

The latest release, Visual Studio 2008 and NET Framework 3.5, builds on this strong foundation LINQ

promises to revolutionize the way you access data, and features that were previously separate

downloads, such as ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Studio Tools for Office, are now included by default