I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Wow, this is a fantastic IDE.
To get started I brought Professional ASP.Net 2.0. There are a lot of ‘where to put things’ changes in ASP.Net 2.0 so doing a book walkthrough is a great way to get started.
So far the things I like are:
Code formatting. (ctrl+k, ctrl+d) just cleans up your code, indenting quoting etc.
The HTML Hierarchy displays where you are at all times.
The new controls seem to work very well. Databinding was very easy.
I like the file approach rather than the project approach. Seems cleaner.
The only negative I have so far is that the IDE is fairly slow. But it’s doing a huge amount of work on each keystroke so I guess that’s the cost. However I have a new laptop with lots of memory and grunt so it’s a bit of a surprise.
Anyway so far just scratched the surface. I don’t have much time but wanted to get my head around it.
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