Absolutely, positively, no Edit and Continue

See Soma's announcement.

VS 2005 supports Edit and Continue for C#. 

You asked for it, again and again. So we did it.

It took a heroic effort by the developers, testers, and program managers in C# to make this happen. 

Enjoy.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 15, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 15, 2004
  Nice job guys!!!!!
  
  As for the unbinding idea...bad idea! Keep it as it is.
  
  Here is a better solution:
  
  1. Make sure the IDEs can co-exist.
  2. Make sure that when running an app out of the IDE the correct runtime is used. (applies mainly to ASP.Net, switching IIS manually or using a util is a pain, the IDE should switch it for you).
  3. Give developers who buy an IDE the ability to freely download previous versions if they don't have a subscription. For example: you buy VS2005 Pro, you can download the previously released professional versions like VS2003 Pro. Ken.
• Anonymous
  October 15, 2004
  Jay, you guys are heroic indeed! Thanks for listening!
  
  Sincerely,
  
  AguyWhoIsAMortOnMondayEinsteinOnTuesdayElvisOnWednesdayAndCompletelyRandomTheRestOfTheWeek. :-)
• Anonymous
  October 15, 2004
  
  Well done.
  
  Although IMO prioritizing something so third-party friendly as "refactoring" over a core engine technology like "edit and continue" was always rather.. uh.. foolish.
  
  Anyway, all water under the bridge now!
• Anonymous
  October 16, 2004
  Thank you SO much!
• Anonymous
  October 18, 2004
  Great news, many kudos to your team and the nice idea of MS Feedback Center
• Anonymous
  October 26, 2004
  how about adding the MY namespace from vb.net 2005 now?! please ;)
• Anonymous
  October 26, 2004
  Thanks!! I wanted to switch from VB to C#, but wasn't because E&C was only in VB. Now I can. This actually changes my image of Microsoft. They do listen!
  
  Now.... no one is ever satisfied are they? How abouts getting E&C to work under ASP.NET? Web developers like to be productive too! :)
• Anonymous
  October 27, 2004
  cwillis: Wow, awesome! That's exactly what we hoped. You asked for it, and we responded. The new MS. :-)
  
  We know that the majority of C# developers do at least some of their work on the web. So by not providing Web.NET E&C, we're missing a big chunk of users. There are two reasons we didn't do that in Whidbey:
  
  - Web scenarios are transient. GUI apps typically run for a long time, but web requests are short. So repeating the debugging session is more painful on client than web.
  
  - It's hard. Much harder than E&C for client application. Remember that C# E&C was added very late in the cycle; we had to scale back the feature as much as possible to make it fit the schedule.
  
  Seem reasonable?
• Anonymous
  October 27, 2004
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• Anonymous
  January 30, 2006
  I just saw over on JayBaz's blog that we will have Edit and Continue in C#..  At first thought I...