Demo: Visual Studio 2005 IDE

So given that I had about 15 minutes I tried to touch on a number of areas. Point I wanted to make was that we have made a wide set of changes designed to make life easier…

• Fast IDE loading
  The IDE loads much, much quicker which in itself is nice.
• Improved window docking
  I could never get the windows to dock where I wanted them to be – it’s great to be able to move the Server explorer to where I want to!
• WinForms Designer Snap-lines
  These are such a timesaver – how many of us have spent hours moving text boxes a pixel at a tie to ensure that all line up and are evenly spaced – only to have a tester or user point out that one of them is still a pixel or two out.
• Refactoring Support
  Rename a parameter and see the code all though the solution be updated to reflect the change, make that field a parameter, extract an interface, …
• Class Diagram
  I love our new design surfaces and our Software Factories vision. So I’ll spend time here making classes, documentation and showing that ‘code is the master’ in our approach our system is always in sync (much harder for the MDA camp).

I could do more and will try to but that’s about all I think I can fit in…