Visual Studio 2008 will have TR1 soon

**KingKrool** · 30-11-07, 10:53 PM

OK, so TR1 is going to be added to Visual Studio 2008 as an update.

Yippee.

It's nice to see Microsoft's compiler's group adopting the newer standard, especially since g++ has had it for few months now.

If you don't know what TR1 is, it is basically an update to C++. The new version of the standard is taking forever to be drafted, so meanwhile they released a technical report called Technical Report 1 aka TR1.

- KK

**sandy453** · 01-12-07, 07:20 AM

This comes as no suprise as the guys who provide STL libraries to microsoft, Dimkuware have implemented the TR1.

They are just gonna get this from Dimkuware ,I guess.

**neurodrone** · 01-12-07, 01:20 PM

And any superbly interesting feature updates for C# folklore too? [except LINQ that is..]

**hammerhead** · 01-12-07, 08:28 PM

Here are a few more advantages of VS 2008.

Some of the more prominent performance improvements in Visual Studio 2008 that we see include:

· Rebuilding a Visual Basic project and running a background compiler is 3x faster and uses 3x less memory. More about this topic here.

· Scrolling large C# files in the Editor is 100% faster, while typing in new text is 50% faster

· The response time of IntelliSense with large types in C# is up to 10 times faster

· Incremental build time runs up to 90% faster on C++/CLI project solutions. More about this topic here.

· Office Word and Excel files are processed 20x faster on the server

· TFS Version Control command processing was re-written to support unlimited sized operations on key commands without being memory bound on the server. In our measurements, key Commands also run 10% - 60% faster, with the larger improvements associated with bigger projects. More about the work to improve TFS scalability here and here.

Complete article here Somasegar's WebLog : VS 2008 Performance Improvements

**Justinâ„¢** · 02-12-07, 11:11 PM

You are still using C++ for Desktop Applications??

Just joking.

The actual (worth mentioning features of VS2008):

* JavaScript Intellisense

* JavaScript Debugging

* ASP.NET AJAX Control Extender Support

* JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

* Web Designer and CSS Support

* Nested Master Page Support

* Vertical Split View Support

* Support to Treat CSS and JavaScript Validation Issues as Warnings instead of Errors

Some improvements in C#/VB:

* Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers

* Extension Methods

* Lambda Expressions

* Query Syntax

* Anonymous Types

* The C# ?? null coalescing operator

* and definetely... LINQ.

**vishalrao** · 15-02-08, 03:06 PM

I just found out about the /MP option for doing source level parallel multiprocessor builds in VS 2008, and that this is also available in VS 2005 but is undocumented! This is not the same as the /Mx option for parallel project builds... blogged about it at Source-level parallel build in Visual Studio 2005 | veracity

**Quad Master** · 15-02-08, 09:36 PM

I have just started with Visual C# in VS2005 and i found itself very eature rich.

Guys any things which might help with C# coding in VS 2008 so i might migrate to it.

I am still learning.