1. What's New in Visual Studio 2005
Session code
What's New in Visual Studio 2005
Stephen Turner
Software Design Engineer

2. Design Goals for 2005
Ecosystem
Productivity
Connectivity
Quality

3. Simplify the Developer Experience
Understanding
Writing
Modifying
Debugging
Sharing

4. Understanding Customer Feedback VS 2005 Support Class Designer
Object Test Bench
“I spend a lot of time reading other dev’s code. Help me quickly get up to speed on the classes and relationships”
Class View search
Code definition window
Find all references
Generated source view
“Give me better ways to navigate code”

5. Demo
Understanding

6. Writing Customer Feedback VS 2005 Support My
Better IntelliSense
Snippet support
Surround With
“I find myself writing the same code over and over again. I want to be able to automate this”
“Binding to data and objects is way more difficult then it needs to be”
Zero-Code DataBinding
“If you know what’s wrong with my code, why don’t you help me fix it”
AutoCorrect
“Whatever you do make it extensible, I want to be able to create my own versions”
Extensible Snippets and Templates

7. Demo
Writing

8. Modifying Customer Feedback VS 2005 Support Refactorings
Rename
Extract Method
Promote Local to Parameter
Reorder Parameters
Remove Parameters
Extract Interface
“I review a lot of code and need to make the same type of changes all the time, why can’t VS help me?”
“You must have all this information, why make me work it out”
Generate Method Stub
Auto Using
“I’m sure there is a way to do this automatically but it’s easier to just make the changes in the editor”
Key activities invoked from editor

9. Demo
Modifying

10. Debugging Customer Feedback VS 2005 Support Grouping and Glyphs
Extensible debug value display
Visualizers
IntelliSense in watch window
“Stop making me navigating six levels deep just to see the contents of a DataSet”
“I want Edit and Continue”
Edit and Continue
“Help me write better code”
FxCop

11. Demo
Debugging

12. Sharing Discovering communities and content providers
Searching, downloading, installing and using content
Content types…
Project Templates
Item Templates
Code Snippets
Samples
Controls
Add-ins

13. Discoverability Contextual entry points: Community Menu:
New Project dialog
Add Item dialog
Snippet Manager dialog
Community Menu:
Project Templates
Item Templates
Code Snippets
Samples
Controls

14. Demo
Sharing

26. Web Service Proxy (Pharos)
Server Architecture
Web Service Proxy (Pharos)
VS Shell
Codezone
Search
(ECRS)
SOAP
Authentication
Calls
Perf & Monitoring
MSDN
Online F1
Routing
3rd Party
Provider
MSDN
Search
VS calls SOAP-enabled services through Web Service proxy layer.
VS Data
Feeds

27. More Information? Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center
Download Visual Studio Express Editions for free!
An Overview of Visual C# 2005
In-depth on productivity & debugging

28. Event Information What’s Next?
Technical Roadshow Post Event Website
Available from Monday 18th April
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30. My. Classes Speed Dial into the Framework
— Application title, version, logs, description, …
— Registry, Printer, Audio, File System, …
— User name, group, domain, …
— Access application resources - icons, images…
— User and application settings
— Collection of project forms
— Collection of web services referenced in project

31. My.Computer
Straightforward access to the host computer’s properties and hardware resources
Allow devices to be enabled easily and their services integrated seamlessly into applications.