So the public beta for Visual Studio 2010 has been available for a little while, but I’ve been to busy to grab it even though I could have gotten when it was MSDN only. I’m still too busy to spend a lot of time but I wanted grab a couple screen shots and offer one feedback item.
I have Win7 RC 1 running in VMWare Fusion on OSX, and VS2010 didn’t install smoothly for me. I downloaded it from MSDN and used 7-Zip to extract the files with which to install it. Unfortunately I got a missing or corrupt file 3-4 times. It’s possible that something was corrupted during extraction, or it could be caused by the fact I was running the install in win7 on fusion in the background while I did other things on this Mac. Either way, I don’t think it was VS2010.
The improved Start Page is nice, but nothing shockingly new or different during install and initial launch.
I created a Test project with the default name. I prefer to start with unit tests and figured it would be a good, simple way to try a couple things. I tried some tests for List<> and delegates/anonymous methods.
I’m not very familiar with the MSTest way of doing things because I typically use nUnit or MbUnit. To me this view looks different, and it’s odd when you’re used to using TDD.Net for running tests. Not bad, just different. (I recommend all of the tools I just mentioned.)
The default colors and fonts do look a lot better than the previous version; not sure if that’s Win7 or VS2010.
I was taking this next shot to show you my preferred test naming style, and noticed something nice. The line number are on by default. I didn’t notice at first because turning those on is the second thing I do to VS after I install it. (The first being to change the default theme/color/font settings.)
So far it looks nice and runs well in my vmware machine of win7. I didn’t push it that hard so I can’t say just yet but it looks good to me. Should probably build something, target .Net 3.0 and deploy it to the website just to see how it goes.
My one feedback item so far is that the intellisense seems a bit overly aggressive. Maybe its because it’s in a VM but it gives the sense of jumpy, slightly confused itellisense choices while I’m typing. Does anyone else get that?
-j