Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Visual Studios 2010

While I'm usually a big open source fan, I can't deny that I've always found Visual Studios a fairly productive development platform. VS 2010 has added a few changes that I'm really liking. For instance, finally, yes finally Microsoft realized developers use multiple desktops to write code. So now in 2010 you can drag and drop your code sheets and tool bars anywhere you want on the screens. That feature is a decade late but hey, it's there now... Also as I spend much of my time on the database end, I can now connect directly to a sql server db through visual studios and write queries, modify sps, whatever I want to do without ever having to open Sql server management studio. Now for more hardcore DB work Management Studio is still neccessary for tasks like creating databases and table. It also appears that Visual Studios 2010 includes some much more robust code analyzer tools, I haven't had a whole lot of time to look into them, but from tutorials I've seen they look like they could be a big help in ensuring code consistency and mantainability.