VS 2008 Beta 2: First Thoughts
I finally got Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 installed correctly on my laptop. I tried Visual Web Developer Express first but realized that didn't give me enough of a preview of the new features. So I downloaded and installed the Team Suite trial.
At first glance, aside from a few little graphical changes, there isn't much different.
But after digging into it, I've started to find some things.
- I like the changes to the settings dialog in ASP.NET applications.
- The ability to change the targeting of an application (between .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5).
- I took one of my applications and upgraded it. Worked flawlessly. I then converted back and forth between 2.0 and 3.5 and it all worked well.
- The new webpage designer is much, much nicer.
- Performance seems on par with VS 2005. Maybe just a tad slower. But not enough that it bothers me.
I've played around with a few of the C# 3.0 features. Its going to take me a while to get used to them, but in generally I'm pretty pleased with them. Extension methods were the ones I was looking forward to the most and they work just as easily as I had expected.
I'll post more thoughts later after I get more time to play with it. But so far - looks good!