VS10 at Tech-Ed Europe
I just watched some of the keynote at Tec-Ed Europe, here's what I liked.
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WPF editor - I had wondered about this but the zoom out\in can be useful for large code files, however, I'd like to see some what of marking up sections of code to make it more useful so that by zooming out I can see the block of code that is most useful to me. Also some way of marking up code coverage blocks etc would be useful to see at 70,000 feet - maybe one for the NCover gang. The comments view feature was also rather nice but not sure how useful it actually is (got some cheers though).
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UML in the class file.
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Test recording and debug profile, this is super useful to debug a testers session. However I do wonder how other factors would be weighed in here, database state and other enviromental factors would be considerations in the enterprise and debug profile alone would not be enough. I liked the video recording of the test session, I wonder if voice (as I way of allowing the tester to narrate what they are doing\seeing) would be cool as well. The integration into VSTS looked fluid as well.
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Team Lab - this was a very short demo and I need to see the other videos to get a better idea of this but I like the sound of it (more on this later maybe).
Here's what I wondered about
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The refactoring features reminded me a great deal of R#, with some of those features now included I can only wonder what R# 5.0 will give us.
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The code explorer looked a great deal like NDepend (but with none of the drill in\query language goodness of NBehave). Again I can only wonder what Patrick and co will give us in VS10.