Introduction to Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Programming Language

Microsoft released .NET Framework 3.5 on November 19, 2007. Along with it, was released Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 – Code Name "Orcas", is the successor to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Visual C# 2008 is the member of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 family, which get released along with Visual Basic 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5.

Visual C# 2008 is a modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages like C, C++. Visual Studio C# 2008 has capabilities for creating web and windows application. Enhanced features in the .NET Framework version 3.5 like Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation along with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and Silverlight improved capabilities of Visual C# 2008 to develop enhanced rich interactive applications (RIA).

Microsoft try his best to improves Microsoft Visual C# 2008. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and related enhancements like lambda expressions, extension methods, expression trees, implicitly typed local variables and objects are the primary new features integrated along with Visual C# 2008 to made it versatile and feature reach.

With LINQ, Visual C# 2008 changes the relationship between developers and data. LINQ is an elegant solution for accessing specific data using a query language that is independent of the data source. LINQ is also object-oriented and extensible. LINQ moves C# a measure closer to functional programming, it refocuses developers from managing the nuts and bolts of data (state) to behavior of information (objects), and it provides a unified model for querying data that no longer depends on the vagaries of a specific language or technology. With LINQ, you can access with the same unified query model a Structured Query Language (SQL) database, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file, or even an array.

LINQ removes the distinction between data and objects. Traditional queries are strings that are not entirely type-safe and return a vector of information, which defines the disconnect between data and objects (objects being type-safe, supporting IntelliSense, and not necessarily rectangular). LINQ forms an abstraction layer that allows developers to treat data as objects and focus on solutions in a unified manner without sacrificing specificity.