Visual Studio 2005 – New Features David Truxall, Ph.D. Principal Consultant NuSoft Solutions

Agenda Intellisense Code Snippets Revision Marks Designer Improvements XML Support Refactoring Partial Classes Debugging Other IDE Improvements

Intellisense

Code Snippets

Revision Marks

Designer Improvements

XML Support

Refactoring

Partial Classes

Debugging

Other IDE Improvements

Intellisense Improvements More complete “Remembers” frequently used items Live Browsing Ctrl + Shift + Spacebar

More complete

“Remembers” frequently used items

Live Browsing

Ctrl + Shift + Spacebar

Code Snippets An expansion of Intellisense Pre-defined blocks of code Can be user-defined Surround with C# snippets need to be downloaded to match VB.Net

An expansion of Intellisense

Pre-defined blocks of code

Can be user-defined

Surround with

C# snippets need to be downloaded to match VB.Net

Revision Marks Tell developer what lines have changed and what lines are unsaved Yellow = unsaved Green = changed

Tell developer what lines have changed and what lines are unsaved

Yellow = unsaved

Green = changed

Designer Enhancements New controls Datagridview Toolstrip Masked textbox Smart Tags Snap Lines

New controls

Datagridview

Toolstrip

Masked textbox

Smart Tags

Snap Lines

Enhanced Support for XML Improved editor Schema errors Graphical schema designer

Improved editor

Schema errors

Graphical schema designer

Refactoring Rename Extract method Encapsulate field Extract Interface Local variable to parameter Remove parameters Re-order parameters

Rename

Extract method

Encapsulate field

Extract Interface

Local variable to parameter

Remove parameters

Re-order parameters

Partial Classes Generated code Multiple developers “Safety” from debilitating changes

Generated code

Multiple developers

“Safety” from debilitating changes

Debugging Data visualisers Data tips Intellisense in the Immediate window Edit-and-Continue in VB.Net XSLT debugging

Data visualisers

Data tips

Intellisense in the Immediate window

Edit-and-Continue in VB.Net

XSLT debugging

Other IDE Improvements Improved Bookmarks Autorecover ExportImport IDE Settings Starter Kits

Improved Bookmarks

Autorecover

ExportImport IDE Settings

Starter Kits

Thanks! David Truxall [email_address] http://www.nusoftsolutions.com

David Truxall

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http://www.nusoftsolutions.com