I don't have time for a large introduction to this post, rather I'll jump straight in and tell you about the things that I picked up on.
- The start page, with its now big button, lots of
padding approach, seem wasted space, especially on any wide screen monitors. the start page for VS.NET 2008 wasn't anything great, but you had the recent projects, some news and other bits all accessible with one click. A minor thing, but its not a better start page.
- The skinned look. This was a complete waste of time, in my opinion and in fact makes the experience in visual studio worse. With the extra padding, now around all the toolbars (the same width as the splitters), it makes everything seem smaller, and it is. The dragging of the toolbars are much cleaner,
smoother than 2008.
I don't like the way the treeview lines and arrows
disappear when it has no focus. If it is a setting, I could not find it, but now I cannot at a glance see if a folder has something in it vs one that does. A small point, but means you have to move the mouse and wait for the lines to fade in.
- The code editor now has filtering on what you type in the intelli-sense. Before it simply took you to the correct item in the
intelli-sense window, now it removes entries that do not match. This is a massive negative point, as I use the intelli-sense as a browser as well.
- The code editor, firstly which is a
major plus, is the
selection highlight. Now it is not an inversion of text colour, with blue selection background, it is a translucent colour, which keeps the text colour as it is, untouched. This simple thing is a massive improvement.
- Unfortunately there is a
microsecond delay now over 2008 when typing. Each character you type appears that little more slowly, which actually took me a while to get over. It was actually annoying to me. I know I am quite sensitive about it, but I think others will also have picked up on it.
- The skin colour of dark blue with white text on the tabs, now distract me. I always have a black windowed code editor, not the usual white. But now, the toolbar tabs for each file is more visible in my peripheral vision as I type in the editor. This is also
distracting.
- The round break point icons in the margin is now that fraction smaller, which I don't like, but can live with.
- Overall, the skin has introduced
too much contrast. It is much more stand out as an interface, which is better to look at, but worse to code in.
Why does Visual Basic appear on the root, and c# in 'Other Languages' - on new Project Dialog? Is this a VB editor, then if we are lucky some other languages? I thought .NET was about multi-language.
1. Visual Basic
2. Other Languages
3. Other project Types
4. Test projects
Tags: vs.net 2010