Whidbey General Session
Eric Rudder presented a session this morning on the next version for Visual Studio.NET code name “Whidbey”. There are a lot of cool new features inside of Whidbey including, but not limited to:
- A stripped down web server that runs on a random port so you no longer have to install IIS
- Code flags that are color coded so you know what code was changed since the last time a file was saved
- You no longer need to have projects for ASP.NET apps, you can just have the .aspx files in a directory and point the IDE at that directory and it will know what to do.
- There is support for master pages that can be inherited, which is really cool especially if you want to lock a certain design in place
- As well as so many other features...
I am kind of tired and it's hard to think, but I still wanted to give an update.
One comment I heard was, “Damnit, there making VS.NET as annoying as MS Word. So when do we get the .NET Assistant? Think we could get a Ballmer assistant that will say developer 37 times?”
Any how the PDC is rockin' and there are many more things to come.