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The VS 2008 Experience
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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.
- No intellisense for Xaml attributes, I think R# has it, though.
- The property pane for WPF is nice.
- I have to type using statements, blah!
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VS 2008 can do usings for you - the command is mapped to Ctrl+. by default, I think. The command is called View.ShowSmartTab if you want to map it to something.
déjà vu (almost)?
My references dialog is still 30~60 seconds. I wonder where I went wrong. Am I a bad person?
If you type/paste a class for which the namespace has not been imported yet, you can right click on it and select Resolve. Not the same as R# but a useful interim tip.
Sergio,
2005 had it as well. I feel like I have a handicap when I am using 2008 without R#
I installed R# , and will deal with whatever will happen as a result.
It's odd, but I get full Intellisense on XAML elements, attributes and attribute values.
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