Thoughts on Software Development, .Net, OOP, Design Patterns and all things cool
As I am sure most of you are aware, Microsoft has released the VS 2008 IDE to
MSDN subscribers yesterday. I decided to give it a download and take it for a
twirl. I thought I would must dump a few random thoughts from my hour or so of
'playing' with it.
- It appears to be running MUCH faster. However, keep in mind I have not
opened any large projects in it yet. And, this is installed inside a new VM
running Vista.
- Opening VS2005 project/solution files seems to work without a hitch (as it
should). I was able to open up and convert an existing project with no
issues.
- Automatic properties are kinda cool. I think this feature will be extremely
useful in reducing unneeded code. But if you do anything in your properties
beside get/set values this new language feature will do you no good.
- Object Initializes are kinda cool, but I am not 100% convinced of their
usefulness. I am not saying there is NO need for this feature, but I am not
really sure what value it adds. Also, if you DON'T have a empty default
constructor, you CANNOT use this new feature.
- Extension methods are cool, but I can see this new feature being the singly
most abused feature. Give the man a hammer and everything becomes a
nail.
Anyway, thought I would just share my initial random thoughts on VS 2008.
And kudos to MS, they released a product early for once. Well, at least early
based on the product name :)
Till next time
About Derik Whittaker
Derik is a .Net Developer/Architect specializing in WinForms working out the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is also believer and advocate for Agile development including SCRUM, TDD, CI, etc.
When Derik is not writing code he can be found spending time with his wife and young son, climbing on his bouldering wall, watching sports (mostly baseball), and generally vegging out.
