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I just saw the anouncement for the Visual Studio CTP today, and am currently waiting for all those files to download...

Have you already tried the CTP, or maybe a previous version? What are your thoughts? There is another question What features would you most like to see in Visual Studio 2010, now here it is, what do you think?

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I haven't but ayende posted about this yesterday

dove
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I've downloaded it, but didn't have enough space to unpack it :-)

But I've heard rumors that VS2010 gets a WCF interface. That would be awesome, but it would also antiquate the 7 GIGs I just downloaded a couple of days ago :-)

Lars Corneliussen
Yeah. There was a presentation about this at the PDC. Really cool.
Patrik
You mean WPF, I assume.
Marc Gravell
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Downloaded, running, looking at the walk throughs, here are some of the things I've seen so far.

  • Customisable Start page in XAML (don't know if I'd bother)
  • Zoomable code editor (I bet this was a feature request from MS evangelists)
  • Highlight current line in editor (YES! the SlickEdit addin slowed my machine horribly. However, I haven't yet managed to get it to work in the CTP)
  • Stuff for hooking into editor and adding your own formatting, highlighting, intellisense, smart tags etc. (Don't think I'll be needing that any time soon)
  • Call Hierarchy - tree view of who calls your method and who your method calls
  • Static type 'dynamic' - strictly speaking this is C#4.0, not VS2010 (watch the PDC Future of C# talk by Anders to get some of that Wow factor)
  • Generate from usage: This is so cool, you write your test, then use VS refactoring to create all of the boilerplate class/property/method definitions for your code. (And you can generate an entire class from an anonymous class!)
  • Quick search - (equivalent of Code Rush Ctrl Shift Q)
Benjol
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IMO the most amazing stuff in VS2010 is a historical debugger. I've been dreaming about such tool since MSVS2003. Integrated code analysis is a very nice feature too.

aku
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I've been playing with it for a while; some thoughts:

  • (ide) the new WPF interface, while shiny, plays merry heck with remote desktop to my VM... I'm hoping that will be optimized (or an option etc) before RTM
  • (language/framework) liking the new dynamic support; shame it isn't complete (it doesn't provide operator support, which .NET 4.0 is meant to deliver)
  • (framework) interesting new Expression support - shame the language doesn't offer it directly, but very powerful for Expression fans

I haven't had time to play with the COM stuff (no-PIA/no-ref), but looks useful.

Marc Gravell