I'm using this for new projects. It feels much cleaner than Visual Studio 2010. For me it feels much like the Expression Studio IDE (which I like).
A lot of the features you had to get from the Productivity Power Tools pack are now built in like pinning frequently used files and the Solution Explorer works kind of like Solution Navigator does in the pack.
I really like the ability to preview a file without opening it.
JavaScript support is greatly improved.
HTML5 DOM support is nice.
FINALLY Iterators in VB without having to write your own generator function!
The Async feature is AWESOME!
Finally modal binding in ASP.NET Web Forms! I hated switching from a MVC project to a Web Forms project because I couldn't use Action methods.
This pattern in common to all great programmers I know: they're not experts in something as much as experts in becoming experts in something.
The best programming advice I ever got was to spend my entire career becoming educable. And I suggest you do the same.
C++ programmers will dismiss you as a cretinous simpleton for your inability to keep track of pointers chained 6 levels deep and Java programmers will pillory you for buying into the evils of Microsoft. Meanwhile C# programmers will get paid just a little bit more than you for writing exactly the same code and VB6 programmers will continue to whitter on about "footprints". - FunkyDexter
There's just no reason to use garbage like InputBox. - jmcilhinney
The threads I start are Niya and Olaf free zones. No arguing about the benefits of VB6 over .NET here please. Happiness must reign. - yereverluvinuncleber
I'd really love for you to elaborate on this. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one in anticipation of some good news
It is actually running JavaScipt in the background so intellisense autocomplete is actually helpful. It doesn't get everything but it gets so much more than it used to.
In situations where you're needing to reference another file and intellisense can't figure out what's going on it'll give you a list of all the info it has (each will have a yellow yield sign showing that it's just dumping all of the identifiers it can find in the file) which is helpful on its own. You can actually add a reference comment to the file to let VS know more about it.
Here's how the reference would look.
Code:
/// <reference path="scripts/knockout.js" />
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Found out a couple more features in the web world that I'm really liking as well.
There's a nice browser switcher on the toolbar so you don't have to r-click browse with or have an add-on to select them.
If you right click a page and go to Browse with you can Ctrl+Click multiple browsers and then hit the Set as Default button. From there you can Ctrl+F5 to launch multiple browsers at the same time. (The browser switcher I mentioned earlier will show Multiple-browsers as well).
It is actually running JavaScipt in the background so intellisense autocomplete is actually helpful. It doesn't get everything but it gets so much more than it used to.
In situations where you're needing to reference another file and intellisense can't figure out what's going on it'll give you a list of all the info it has (each will have a yellow yield sign showing that it's just dumping all of the identifiers it can find in the file) which is helpful on its own. You can actually add a reference comment to the file to let VS know more about it.
Here's how the reference would look.
Code:
/// <reference path="scripts/knockout.js" />
Ya I was really hoping that this issue was addressed. Intellisense support for javascript in VS2008 is piss poor. This is good news.
C++ programmers will dismiss you as a cretinous simpleton for your inability to keep track of pointers chained 6 levels deep and Java programmers will pillory you for buying into the evils of Microsoft. Meanwhile C# programmers will get paid just a little bit more than you for writing exactly the same code and VB6 programmers will continue to whitter on about "footprints". - FunkyDexter
There's just no reason to use garbage like InputBox. - jmcilhinney
The threads I start are Niya and Olaf free zones. No arguing about the benefits of VB6 over .NET here please. Happiness must reign. - yereverluvinuncleber
Visual Studio 11 Beta
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