Visual Studio 2005 first look at MSDN Day

Awesome developments to IDE and ASP toolbox in Visual Studio 2005. VS 2005 is becoming a kind of swiss army knife - All in one tool for .net development. Intellisense for almost everything you do with VS 2005. Had a first look at it today at MSDN day conducted at The Continental by Satyam.

Visual studio 2005 is releasing in November. ASP.net with this version has lot of [50+] new controls to help you with almost everything you wanted.

Some great improvements to vs 2005

• Controls can be dragged in source mode (Note earlier only design mode allowed you to drag and toolbox was disabled in design mode)
• Intellisense for every XML having valid DTD.
• Clean application folder - creates files only when required (eg. web.config)
• Error helper pops up with various options (details of the error, exception class details etc) - In earlier versions you had to go to msdn or google to help yourself with the exceptions raised.


• Standard validations to make the code compatible with selected compatibility option. Intellisense makes sure options are valid.
• Allows mixed development of vb.net and c# in different pages, they can be compiled together to make one dll.

Links related to visual studio 2005

• Official site of visual studio 2005
• Visual basic IDE team blog
• Comparision of VS 2005 with JSF the java counterpart
• Some VS 2005 related samples and code snippets

Summary In short lot of intelligence is built around the IDE keeping developer in mind. Thats what is needed to make a developer's life easier and which inturn helps in reducing the development time.What next after visual studio 2005 ? -Here is the Roadmap by microsoft