The VS 2008 Experience
So far, I haven't done much with VS 2008. I build Linq for NHibernate, but that was mostly so I could understand how Linq works.
I am now writing a pet project using VS 2008, and I am going to use this post to document the initial impressions.
- No ReSharper for the 3.5 features - EAP is in about a month, YEAH!
- Add reference dialog comes up fast. It comes in a second or so, instead of the 30 - 60 seconds that it used to.
- TestDriven.NET just works.
- I had to use Reflector to figure out how the hell a WPF is starting up (no Main() in sight).
- Go To Reflector (from TestDriven.Net) works.
- The WPF designer is slow.
- In fact, the WPF designer is slow as molasses.
- No intellisense for Xaml attributes, I think R# has it, though.
- The property pane for WPF is nice.
- The speed of Rename Refactoring is significantly improved!
- Format XML seems like it is horribly broken, but this is just because there are different formatting for XML and XAML, and the XAML defaults are weird.
Comments
You mean in VS2005 it comes in more than 30 seconds?
Thats tragically alot.
Add reference dialog should come up immediatelly, not even in a second.
Probably it depends on which tab from "Add reference" is the default and on how many assemblies are in GAC - if there are many assemblies, in VS2005 it take indeed a LOT of time to load the list, at least in my case..
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