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This section of the Visual Studio 2008 Learning Guide looks at what's new for Web and mobile application development. The biggest news is that ASP.NET AJAX is now available out of the box; for additional information on the ins and outs of Microsoft's Ajax framework, visit our ASP.NET AJAX Learning Guide. Additional Web development resources appear below. The next section of the learning guide focuses on JavaScript IntelliSense, which has been introduced in VS 2008 to reduce headaches for ASP.NET developers.
Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 (Rick Strahl)
Here the head of West Wind Technologies takes a look at VS 2008 (in this case, Beta 1) and what changes have been introduced for ASP.NET. The answer is "not much" -- but that's not a bad thing.
Visual Studio 2008 Programmer's Guide: ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer (MSDN)
This serves as a landing page for reference material that should help anyone building Web sites with ASP.NET.
Visual Studio 2008 Programmer's Guide: Windows CE and Mobile Device Development (MSDN)
This serves as a landing page for reference material that should help anyone who builds Windows CE and .NET Compact Framework applications for Smartphones or Pocket PCs.
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