Announcing: C# Edit and Continue support for Visual Studio 2005
A few weeks ago, I updated my blog by writing about Microsoft’s commitment to VB.Net. This posting generated a healthy discussion between C# & VB developers with both camps championing their favorite features. A nice feature for our VB customers in Visual Studio 2005 (and also Visual C++) is ‘Edit & Continue’ (E&C). For those of you not familiar with E&C, E&C enables you to make changes to your code while an application is being debugged. Imagine that you are debugging a complex application. Suddenly, you see that you’ve made an error in your application. Sighing, you stop the application, make the correction and start the code-compile-debug cycle all over again. This means that you spend a lot of time recompiling the application even if you’ve changed only one line of code. E&C changes this and reduces the time required to fix bugs. In the above scenario, you could just fix the SQL query and continue debugging the application from the same point.
One of the top feedback requests from our customers is support for Edit & Continue (E&C) in C# in Visual Studio 2005. I am excited to announce that the C# team took your feedback to heart and has added support for E&C in Visual Studio 2005.
