VS.NET 2005, you had me at hello
Decided to take the plunge & install it. So I freed up some space, prepping to lose a nice chunk (4GB) to the IDE & help files. (Note going into this, I already had the .NET 2.0 Framework Redistributable installed.) I have VS.NET 2003 & help installed and no plans on removing it.
Played around with Refactoring a bit -- this could come in handy. Class designer was good too -- dropped a solution on the surface and it diagrammed out a class model diagram for all of the classes.
All in all -- very nice. Excited to explore more features, like the local web projects improvements.
- First thing -- VS.NET 2005 picked up on the fact I have Win XP SP1 and told me I have to have SP2. Fair enough. (time passes ...)
- While I wait, I'm reading articles like this that concern me (but I will most likely never run into this particular one). But I still want it. Folding laundry now waiting for my 111mb download & install of SP2 to finish.
- Allset ... install + docs with my documentation only took 2.1GB -- not bad
- Installed AnkhSVN snapshot 23 [would recommend firing up VS.NET 2005 at least once before installing all the add-ins]
- Installed NUnit 2.2.3 (support for .NET 2.0 )
- Installed TestDriven.NET 2.0 beta
- Loaded my first project ...
Played around with Refactoring a bit -- this could come in handy. Class designer was good too -- dropped a solution on the surface and it diagrammed out a class model diagram for all of the classes.
All in all -- very nice. Excited to explore more features, like the local web projects improvements.