RE: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 refresh installation

Ted wrote:
> Do you have any advice on where to start?

Gosh, there are so many new features to try. It's like being a kid in a
candy shop. What are you interested in?

How about trying some test-driven development using the unit testing
features?

Do you like language features? Check out anonymous delegates, iterators,
partial types and generics.

Refactoring is cool. ClickOnce is cool. Smart tags in the designer are cool.

Data binding in Windows Forms and Web Forms is a much-improved developer
experience.

Lots of new stuff in the System.Xml namespace (although some of that is in
flux.) The new XsltCommand supports debugging, so you can step through
transformations.

You might find something that piques your curiosity in the Windows Forms FAQ
page on Windows Forms 2.0 [1] and the Compact Framework FAQ page on Compact
Framework 2.0 [2].

Be sure to provide feedback to the product teams at the MSDN Product
Feedback Center [3].

Loads more to try from the Visual Studio 2005 home page [4] and Visual
Studio 2005 Team System home page [5].

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Stuart Celarier | Fern Creek | www.ferncrk.com


[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/wffaq/wf20.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/community/cffaq/cf20.aspx
[3] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/
[4] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/
[5] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/