Starting with Visual Studio 2010 two weeks ago I was very taut. The first I saw was the new StartPage. Very clean. But the headlines could be shown in 3 or more lines. There are some new features on this site. First the customize option. I’m looking forward to see some realy cool themes and ideas there. Second is the Extension Manager. VS2010 is (fully) build on MEF. So you can do everything within the code editor or the main windows. There already some great samples from the community.
Coding
A great improvment is the way the IntelliSense searches for your keyword. Now it shows all items beginning or ending with your search instead of just all ending with.
Unfortunately it feels kind of slow writing down your code. Hopefully better in Beta 2.
Another bug is the “Resolve” context menu. Pressing Shift+Alt+F10 to resolve a not recogized word VS2008 selected the first item in the context menu. So just hitting Return an the problem was gone. In VS2010 I first have to press keydown to select the first item. Please change that behaviour!
Designer
The WinForms designer is..hmm working but yet unhandy. There are very small annoying things.
I know its’s a beta. The new WPF UI looks clean and professional. Docking of windows is much better than in vs2008. Now my multi monitor system gets realy used.
I’m looking forward to Beta 2. This version is quite working in my productive environment (which is my opinion, I don’t recommend that), no crashes.
So far, great job guys!
According to Brandon’s post these are the dates where Windows 7 gets available for download:
- ISVs via MSDN: August 6th (english) / October 1st (remaining)
- Gold/Certified Members: August 16th (english) / October 1st (remaining)
- MAPS: August 23th (english) / October 1st (remaining)
- TechNet Members: August 6th(english) / October 1st (remaining)
- OEM: 2 days after RTM
- VL /w SA: 7. August (english) / + 2-3 Weeks (remaining)
- VL w/o SA: 1. September
- Consumer: 22th October
Brad Adams has posted some SL3 sessions recorded on MIX09.
Brad Adams released a unique overview which new features of SL3 are available to build amazing business applications. He also shares the source for the MIX09 demo applications.
The Mix09′s keynote has finished and I’m overwhelmed. Silverlight 3 will change the whole way we’ll consume applications. Either web or Desktop. With “out of browser” Silverlight 3 will break down that barrier between web and desktop. There’s a lot new stuff inside SL3. But the installer is 40k smaller 
Check out the features of Silverlight 3 on Tim Heuer’s blog or on the official Silverlight website.
With Expression Blend 3 Microsoft provides a tool to enhance the workflow of designers’s work. It’s called Sketchflow. It a buildin feature that brings the “from sketches to prototype” experience mentioned earlier this keynote.
And now I’m installing SL3 Beta and try out these amazing new features!
John Cunningham announced a fix for a bug in Visual Studio 2008 which was introduced in SP1. VS crashes when un/docking windows and start/stop debugging.
The fix can be downloaded via Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB960075
I currently watched the Knowledge Chamber session with Brad Adams. He introduced some really cool new features of the upcoming Silverlight 3. I’m really looking forward his session at MIX09.
He showed the new integrated support for DeepLinks with ErrorHandling. Form validation will be also included as new controls.
SL3 will be a great platform for business applications. So can’t wait till SL3 beta is out.
I recently updated the Common package of the SBAT (Silverlight Business Application Toolkit). New in this version is the Storage helper class which simplyfy the access to the Silverlight’s Isolated Storage. It uses generic methods to save and load various objects to and from the storage.
Read data from storage:
List persons = Storage.LoadData>("persons.dat");
Saving data is as easy as reading:
Storage.SaveData>(persons, "persons.dat");
// or using the type inference
Storage.SaveData(persons, "persons.dat");
On every save call the available amount of free space is calculated and increased by demand.
Read the full source code on Codeplex.
I shortly read the article on Ofir’s blog about the doubleclick handler. Just for a quick note, there’s a DoubleClickHelper in the Common package of the Silverlight Business Application Toolkit. This helper class uses lamba and extension methods for easy using. So you can register within a single line of code:
myFrameworkElement.RegisterDoubleClick(doubleClickHandler);
Here’s the full source code (located on codeplex): DoubleclickHelper.cs
Microsoft hat gestern den Release Candidate 1 von Windows Vista der breiten Öffentlichkeit zu Verfügung gestellt. Nachdem TechNet und MSDN-Abonnementen diese Release schon seit einiger Zeit testen konnten, wird es nun von MS als “stabil” genug empfunden um alle damit testen zu lassen.
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