Visual Studio Whidbey

VisualStudioWhidbey (Visual Studio 2005) will be released later in 2005. Developer centre is located at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/info/

SeptemberZeroFive information. VisualStudioOrcas is the NextBigThing

Changes

IDE

1. Code expansions Allows the programmer to create its own code templates - iterators, loops. XML extensible.

2. Smart tags MicrosoftWord-like spell-checking.

3. Beefed-up IntelliSense Can now filter code completion window (show only events/methods/properties). Can (finally!) show list of exceptions in Try/Catch block.

4. Code snippets Code-snippets, what else can I say?

5. Beefed-up background compilation Now it can generate exceptions and stuff.

Troubleshooting Tips

• Handle the exception and degrade gracefully.

(Yep, degradation is the way to go)

6. Visual ReFactoring Now you can select a block of code and

• Extract it into a method (ExtractMethod?)
• Encapsulate field
• Extract Interface
• Rename class, variable, function
• Modify list of arguments of a function.
• Replace ArrayList (???)

7. User-defined syntax highlighting We have pimp clothing, now we have pimp IDEs.

Framework

• 64-bit CPU support
• works faster™
• codename Whitehorse set of tool for rapid WebService design
• beefed-up .NET CF
• lots of new ASP .NET components

Languages

• CsharpLanguage:
  • generics
  • partial types
  • AnonymousMethods
  • iterators
  • global namespace qualificators
  • static classes
  • NullableType
• VbDotNet:
  • generics
  • partial types
  • operator overloading
  • unsigned data types
  • xml doc comments
  • edit and continue debugging
• ManagedCeePlusPlus
  • completely new syntax for managed extensions ("C++/CLI")
  • generics (in addition to normal C++ templates)
  • profile-guided optimization
  • minor enhancements for MFC
• JaySharp
  • improved java compatibility
  • swing support

MSBuild completely new ant/make replacement build framework.

MicrosoftOffice integration No more pesky VBA. Let your spreadsheets format hard drives!

SQL Server 2005 (codename Yukon) No more StructuredQueryLanguage. Write queries in .NET languages!

• c-67-162-251-104.client.comcast.net please explain
  • I have looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/02/YukonBasics/ only stated the option of using DotNet language for data manipulation
  • Please move more in-depth discussion to SqlServer section on Yukon. Thanks -- DavidLiu

News and related developments

Beta2 available for download since Apr05 see http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/46090/46090.html

• some compatibility issues exist in the beta, with prior 1.1 version. See an article at http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?newsID=3740&printerfriendly=1

pre beta 2 VisualStudioWhidbey uninstall a prerequisite see http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/

Resources

MS channel 9 wiki with beta code links, etc at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WhidbeyWiki

Hosting sites for Whidbey testing see http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/285/site/4949/266/default.aspx

.NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 (Beta) Compatibility see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/netfxcompat.asp

I'm using this now and finding it quite excruciating. It's very unproductive compared to IntelliJ. Lots of features are only accessible via the mouse -- for example, is there a way to invoke autocorrect with the keyboard instead of clicking the mouse on the little icons that indicate a problem?

No. What is excruciating about mouse movements and clicking?

see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tour/vs2005_guided_tour/VS2005pro/Framework/AutoCorrect.htm

illustration:

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