First Impressions of Visual Studio 2010
I played with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 over the weekend and I really like many of the improvements.
My favorites are new features to make code navigation simpler:
- Call Hierarchy: being able to see in design mode what method calls and is called by other methods is brilliant! This is only available for C# in this revision, but that’s really the only .Net language I code in anyway.
- Navigate To: an easy way to type any part of an identifier name and find it anywhere in the current solution.
I’m really happy about this. One of the most cumbersome things when working in Visual Studio has been navigating through code.
I still miss one of the best features of Visual DataFlex Studio, Code Explorer, in Visual Studio. While I appreciate the improvements for making code easier to find in VS 2010, I always have Code Explorer open in the Visual DataFlex Studio. Code Explorer is a docking panel that displays the structure of the current code file. This makes it very easy to locate a class, object or method with a click.
Class View at first appears somewhat similar, but the way it’s implemented, it still takes a lot more steps to find something.