Whats the dealio with the new Visual Studio?

[Denaes]

I heard Divil mention the new version is supposed to have better grid controls.

 

When is this new version supposed to be out? Whats it going to add? It won't negate any of the .Net learning will it?

 

I did a search and couldn't find anything. A link of info would be greatly appreciated :)

[Volte]

It's codenamed .NET Whidbey, so you can probably use that to turn up some information.

[gabru]

i was on a presentation (.net day) and they presented some features of whidbey. Here are some examples i can remember:

 

- you dont need to create a project just to test something. Thats we have all waited for. No TestProject1, TestProject2, etc. anymore

 

- Object spaces .. its complicated to explain this

 

- highlighting which lines have been changed sind the last save

 

- the possibility to easily encapsulate functions. So if you will find a code part you want to use as a function you just make some clicks and VS do everything else.

 

etc.

etc.

[Denaes]

The thing I'm most worried about is that they're potentially making VB.Net a step backward towards vb6. So long as you can manually turn some of those options off, I think I'll upgrade.

[irasmith]

What I am hoping for is a cheap upgrade path from VS.NET 2003.

 

I just purchsed VS.NET 2003 in January of this year as I work on learning .NET. When paying for it out of your own pocket the upgrade won't be too appealing if they don't price it cheap given what I had to shell out in January to get started with VS.

 

So lets all hope they do a small upgrade fee and leave it at that.:)

[Derek Stone]

Microsoft has always offered upgrade pricing on its products. The only question is what they'll set it at.

[samsmithnz]

What I am hoping for is a cheap upgrade path from VS.NET 2003.

 

I just purchsed VS.NET 2003 in January of this year as I work on learning .NET. When paying for it out of your own pocket the upgrade won't be too appealing if they don't price it cheap given what I had to shell out in January to get started with VS.

 

So lets all hope they do a small upgrade fee and leave it at that.:)

 

the upgrade from 2002 and 2003 was only $30...

[Denaes]

And from what I recall, a lot of people held off because the upgrade wasn't worth it to them.

 

I think there were improvements with the C# side of things, but what new features were realling included? I think it was mostly bug fixes and upgrade to v1.1 of the framework.

 

This new version looks much more severe.

[irasmith]

I'll be fine with paying a small fee to upgrade, especially if there are a lot of extras that come with the upgrade. Just don't want it to be too costly after the hefty initial investment ;)

[samsmithnz]

And from what I recall, a lot of people held off because the upgrade wasn't worth it to them.

 

I think there were improvements with the C# side of things, but what new features were realling included? I think it was mostly bug fixes and upgrade to v1.1 of the framework.

 

This new version looks much more severe.

 

There were actually quite a few little changes to improve the syntax, I believe that in VS 2002 you couldn't for example do this (declare a variable in a for loop):

for i as integer = 0 to grid.items.count -1

next

[Denaes]

There were actually quite a few little changes to improve the syntax, I believe that in VS 2002 you couldn't for example do this (declare a variable in a for loop):

for i as integer = 0 to grid.items.count -1

next

 

My books are all VB.Net 2002, and I learned on vb6.

 

Thats handy. Does that keep i declared for the rest of the procedure, or just within the loop?

 

Anywere you can get a list of 02->03 changes?