Dot net 2005 vs 2003
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Visual Studio .NET 2005 includes many new features and enhancements compared to Visual Studio .NET 2003 for both Windows and web development. Key IDE improvements in VS 2005 include refactoring support, code snippets, enhanced debugging tools, and improved deployment options like ClickOnce. ASP.NET features were expanded with new data and navigation controls, master pages, and themes/skins. C# and VB.NET saw new capabilities like generics, partial types, and nullable types.
Dot net 2005 vs 2003
- 1. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 Name Account / Business Group Authors Grace Lawrence Retail, CPG & [email protected] Distribution Nanthini Venkatapathy [email protected] Reviewed by Debasmita Das Retail, CPG & [email protected] Distribution Wipro – Confidential Page 1 of 11
- 2. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 Synopsis: Technology evolves along with the need of people using the technology. Same is the case with Visual Studio .Net. Visual Studio .Net 2005 promises new and enhanced features for almost every aspect of windows and web-based software development. This document aims to compare all major changes in Visual Studio .Net 2005 with its predecessor Visual Studio .Net 2003 with respect to windows and web-based applications. Wipro – Confidential Page 2 of 11
- 3. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.IDE Features.................................................................................................4 2.ASP .Net Features..........................................................................................8 3.Language Enhancements..............................................................................10 Wipro – Confidential Page 3 of 11
- 4. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 1. IDE Features VS.Net IDE Features VS.Net VS.Net Comments 2005 2003 Productivity features Refactoring Yes No Improved code quality through internal restructuring (applicable only for C# and J#). Code snippets Yes No Ready to use Code snippets. Smart tags Yes No Applicable only for VB.Net. Enhanced intellisense and autocorrect Yes No Auto recover Yes No Automatic saving every five minutes. Line Revision Marks Yes No Edited lines and lines adjacent to them are marked. Solutions and Project related features Test Projects Yes No Create and execute temporary projects without saving. Stand-alone projects Yes No Applicable for solution which has only one project. User will not see the solution in the Solution Explorer as well as the commands that act on solutions. However the solution files are still created. Referencing an EXE Yes No .EXEs can be referenced similar to .DLLs in Visual Studio. This feature can be used to reference classes and methods which are contained in an executable. Building, Debugging and Deployment Build options MSBuild Yes No XML based transparent build system for all managed client Wipro – Confidential Page 4 of 11
- 5. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 application. Debugging Edit and Continue Yes No Applicable only for VB.Net. Remote Debugging Yes No More Secure Remote Debugging with Simpler Setup. Visualizers Yes No Enables viewing of data in an intuitive and natural format. It can be launched from a Watch window. Just My Code Debugging Yes No Tracepoints and Improved Breakpoint Yes No Tracepoints are a new way UI of using breakpoints to perform a custom action i.e. displaying a messagebox or executing a Visual Studio automation macro to determine whether to break or continue when it hits a tracepoint. Better Tools for Multiprocess Yes No Debugging Exception Assistant Yes No Provides more precise information when exception occurs. Applicable only for VB.Net, C# and J# (not for other languages like VC++ .Net) Improved Support for Managing Yes No Debug Information Debugging Code at Design Time Yes No Debugging option at design time using the Immediate window. Support for XSLT Debugging Yes No Supports debugging a style sheet or an XSL transform invoked from another application. Deployment ClickOnce Deployment Yes No Enables deployment of self-updating Windows and Command Line Applications that can be installed and run as easily Wipro – Confidential Page 5 of 11
- 6. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 as Web applications from Publish command on the Build menu. Bootstrapping Prerequisites Yes No Enables the inclusion of system perquisite components i.e. .NET Framework runtime as a part of a deployment project or ClickOnce deployment Improved Windows Installer Yes No Ability to choose between Deployment per-user or per-machine installation Automation XML Add-in Registration Yes No Developers can use XML files to define the registration settings for add-ins. DTE2.Toolwindows Yes No Improves the discoverability and usability of tool windows in the object model by providing easy access to the tool windows in the IDE in their native types DTE.Toolwindows.CreateToolWindow2 Yes No Creates a new tool window and hosts a user-defined control in it Managed code add-ins Yes No Supports Managed Visual C++ New Managed tools options Yes No Several new options on the Tools menu are provided for managed code. Task List default navigation Yes No Enables navigating directly to lines in the code by double-clicking items in the Task List. Synchronous Find Yes No The Find object offers a new property, P:EnvDTE80.Find2. WaitForFindToComplete to specify whether the search is performed synchronously or Wipro – Confidential Page 6 of 11
- 7. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 asynchronously. Tool window command bar support Yes No Enhanced AddNamedCommand Yes No An additional parameter in M:EnvDTE80.Commands2. AddNamedCommand2 is included to specify the style of the button, such as text only, icon only, text, and icon. Additional types of controls can also be created to place in the toolbars and menus, such as list box controls, edit box controls, and drop- down menu controls. Add-In and Macro Security Yes No Developers can specify whether macros are allowed to run, whether add-ins are allowed to load, etc. Code Model Events Yes No Track and respond to changes happening in the code Language Model Additions Yes No A new assembly called VSLangProj80 contains a number of new automation members for Visual Basic and Visual C# New Documentation for the IVSS Yes No Automation Model Help Help viewer default Yes No Displays in an external Help viewer i.e. Microsoft Document Explorer, by default rather than inside the IDE Community integration Yes No Enables access to forums and newsgroups directly from within Help Wipro – Confidential Page 7 of 11
- 8. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 2. ASP .Net Features ASP.Net 2005 2003 Comments Productivity features Data Controls - gridview, detailsview, Yes No and formview Navigation Controls - treeview, menu, Yes No and sitemappath Login Controls Yes No Web parts Yes No Master pages with common header, Yes No footer, navigation menu, etc. Themes and Skins Yes No Easy customization of web site's look-and-feel Personalization Yes No Profile object Localization Yes No Built-in tools to dynamically generate resource files and localization references Administration and Management IIS required on development No Yes computer Built-in web server Yes No Configuration API Yes No Programmatically build programs or scripts that create, read, and update Web.config and machine.config configuration files ASP.NET MMC Admin Tool Yes No Pre-compilation Tool Yes No Health Monitoring and Tracing Yes No XML based provider Yes No Debugging of Stored procedures, Yes No UDFs SQL – CLR integration Yes No Stored procedures, triggers, user-defined types, and user-defined functions can be created Wipro – Confidential Page 8 of 11
- 9. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 using any .Net framework (applicable only with SQL Server 2005) ASP.NET dynamic compile engine Yes No Automatic compilation of pages Crystal Report Support Crystal Reports – Version 10 Yes No Design Time Preview Yes No Client side Print/Export option Yes No ToolTip disabled by default Yes No Themes Yes No Flexible Extensibility Provider-driven Application Services Yes No Built-in support for membership (user name/password credential storage) and role management services out of the box Server Control Extensibility Yes No Improved support for control extensibility, such as more base classes that encapsulate common behaviors, improved designer support, more APIs for interacting with client-side script, metadata-driven support for new features like themes and accessibility verification, better state management Compilation Build Providers Yes No Expression Builders Yes No Performance and Scalability 64-Bit Support Yes No Caching Improvements Yes No Automatic database server cache invalidation Without performing a postback to the Yes No server sorting and paging can be done using the gridview control Wipro – Confidential Page 9 of 11
- 10. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 3. Language Enhancements VB.Net Language Enhancements 2005 2003 Comments Partial types Yes No Generics Yes No Mixed access modifiers in property Yes No My Yes No Application level version of Me Operator Overloading Yes No Using statement Yes No Continue statement Yes No IsNot operator Yes No Default Instances Yes No Open a form without creating an instance Three new unsigned data types Yes No UInteger, ULong, UShort Explicit Zero Lower Bound on an Yes No Array Trycast Yes No A cast operator that doesn’t throw exception Nullable types Yes No C#.Net Language Enhancements 2005 2003 Comments Generics Yes No Anonymous methods Yes No Iterators Yes No Partial types Yes No Nullable types Yes No Mixed access modifiers in property Yes No Wipro – Confidential Page 10 of 11
- 11. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 References: • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/88fx1xy0(VS.80).aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/benoyraj/ASPComparisonChart03072006234144 PM/ASPComparisonChart.aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/amit_agrl/NewIDEFeaturesinVS20051110200501 0707AM/NewIDEFeaturesinVS2005.aspx • http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=vs2005_intro • http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/26/vbnet20_pt1.html? page=last Wipro – Confidential Page 11 of 11
- 12. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 References: • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/88fx1xy0(VS.80).aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/benoyraj/ASPComparisonChart03072006234144 PM/ASPComparisonChart.aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/amit_agrl/NewIDEFeaturesinVS20051110200501 0707AM/NewIDEFeaturesinVS2005.aspx • http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=vs2005_intro • http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/26/vbnet20_pt1.html? page=last Wipro – Confidential Page 11 of 11
- 13. .Net 2005 versus .Net 2003 References: • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/88fx1xy0(VS.80).aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/benoyraj/ASPComparisonChart03072006234144 PM/ASPComparisonChart.aspx • http://www.c- sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/amit_agrl/NewIDEFeaturesinVS20051110200501 0707AM/NewIDEFeaturesinVS2005.aspx • http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=vs2005_intro • http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/26/vbnet20_pt1.html? page=last Wipro – Confidential Page 11 of 11