What is the Best/Worst features of Visual Studio 2010 you like/dislike most, comparing to VS 2008?
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Worst feature? Only one built-in color theme which does not allow for customization. Not everyone is crazy about blue, you know.
Developer Art
2010-06-04 10:08:44
Are there some tweaks to install more color themes?
CharlesB
2010-06-04 10:21:13
I use the "Visual Studio Color Theme Editor" add-in - works a treat. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378
chibacity
2010-06-04 10:31:09
It's not official.
Developer Art
2010-06-04 11:53:32
What does "not official" mean? It was written by a Microsoft employee and is marked on the gallery as such. Even if it wasn't, what's the issue with *who* wrote the extension?
Noah Richards
2010-06-04 14:54:53
@Noah Richards: Not official means could work unstably. I remember reading comments somewhere that this plugin crashed the studio. Anyway, it doesn't do Microsoft credit to screw down the UI customization. Could have left it like it was in 2008.
Developer Art
2010-06-04 15:10:45
I've never heard of a crash involving the theme editor. If you do install it and it does crash, the Watson will get back to us, or you can file a bug on Connect, even if it wasn't marked as a Microsoft extension (which it is).
Noah Richards
2010-06-05 05:42:24
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A:
I'd say that without question, the best feature is the whole add-in support and ecosystem (with built-in browser).
It's the first time that Visual Studio can actually compete with Eclipse - at least in my opinion :)
Oak
2010-06-04 10:12:04
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Worst thing: the removal of .dbp Database projects. Almost as bad as when they removed ETP projects in Visual Studio 2005.
I hate it when they remove things that were working perfectly well. In this case the replacement has a learning curve, appears to be SQL Server only, and doesn't have some of the convenient features of dbp projects such as right-click / Run On.
ETP projects in .NET 1.x were great as containers to contain groups of projects and/or files such as documentation or third party dlls, which could then be all added to a solution in one step.
Joe
2010-06-04 10:19:45
A:
well, I'll answer with what is a regression to me, unless I've missed it in which case please point me to the solution.
When using VS2008 with TFS, to add an existing project from the source explorer to a solution, you could simply double click the project file, that was nice. Now if you double click a project file, it opens a new solution with just that projet. That means if you want to create a new solution and add multiple existing project, you'd have to go through those steps :
Right click solution
Add existing project
Browse
Navigate to the project file
Select it
Click OK
Repeat
Stephane
2010-06-04 10:21:24