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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.

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# re: The VS 2008 Experience 12/10/2007 12:22 PM Darius Damalakas

> Add reference dialog comes up fast. It comes in a second or so, instead of the 30 - 60 seconds that it used to.

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.

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# re: The VS 2008 Experience 12/10/2007 3:54 PM Tudor

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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