Thread: Visual Studio 2008 will have TR1 soon

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.