In Everett we made a small change to Intellisense to lessen the code you had to type. Often you will new up a class and write something like: Foo x = new Foo(); In VS7 you had to type out the whole thing. In Everett we had Intellisense pop up after...

Last week was a stressful week as we worked on closing down the Community Technology Preview. We had a small fire drill as we ran up against interesting things that can happen on large software projects, but I'llleave that anecdote for later. As I've...

Vs7 customers complained to us that they wanted pre and post build commands that could be run from the project system. Its pretty reasonable to want to automate some tasks that you would do before or after builds, so in Everett we added this in. To...

As a C# customer, what are the 3 top C# features that make you excited in Whidbey? An incomplete list of new features can be seen at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/whidbey_csharp_preview.asp ...

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One of the complaints we received from VS7 was that you couldnt tell the exceptions that a particular method could throw. We scratched our heads thinking of ways to do this, as the xml docs did contain this informattion about the class libraries. Ideally...

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In Everett, we added a feature to add interface stubs to your code automatically, when you wanted to derive from an interface. To do this simply type out “:” after your class name, type your interface to derive from and you should see a little...

I happen to work on the Samples story for Whidbey. We have a ton of code all over that can help you get updated on how to write stuff. For e.g. in the product we have: Tutorials and walkthroughs that show you how to accomplish tasks Code snippets...

I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie. I love keyboard shortcuts for tasks. I've been known when speaking to devs to say stuff like “Ctrl+alt+l, Select foo.cpp, Ctrl+alt_w+1...no, hit Ctrl+alt...” instead of “ Open the solution explorer, select...

Ok, one other new feature we added was to add intellisense to the immediate window. The immediate window is a window used to evaluate expressions, much like the VB6 one. When debugging and in break mode, you can open it up from Debug->Windows->Immediate...