[TLS321] Visual C# "Whidbey": IDE Enhancement for the C# Developer

• Nice new features in the IDE:
• Expansion, configurable via XML schema (e.g. automatic getter and setter for properties)
• Code formatting (customizable)
• Filter completion list (e.g. the list in catch( contains exception classes only)
• Browse components (generates read-only source files, e.g. for System.String)
• Find all references
• Refactoring (e.g. Rename, Extract method, etc)
• Watch window in debugger will use .ToString() method

BTW, about 64% of the PDC attendees state their preferred .NET language is C#.

P.S.: Eric Rudder said in today’s keynote, that currently 27 languages are supported in .NET…