READER COMMENTS  (22)

Friday - 8/15/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

cool

Friday - 8/15/2008 Posted by: Edina

Seems like there's a new version everytime you turn around. VS 2008 is the best yet, but as always, it takes time to get up to speed and be sure that all the 2003, 2005 apps are happily ensconced on this latest.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Matt McGuire from Yakima WA

i generally like it, finding what you need is getting a little cumbersom, but over all it's good. I still have to split my time between VS2008 and VS2003 and what a difference between the two. 2003 is quicker, but 2008's helpfull tools out weigh the speed sometimes.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Matt McGuire

something is wrong with this post, I kept getting an error message when i tried to post: "Comment could not be added!" or invalid Email, then it just showed up 3 times???

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Looks like it's fixed

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Still Bug Ridden. Crashes frequently. Very difficult to Debug Silverlight applications. Documentation worthless.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Robert Durgin from Hudson, MA

It's starting to do implement features Eclipse has had for years.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

pre sp1 was horrible, crashed all the time, sloooooow. SP1 was great! fixed all the problems and added some cool stuff

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: Roger Jennings from Oakland, CA

SP1 has solved most of the problems I've encountered with VS 2008 RTM. However, using Entity Framework as a data source for ASP.NET Dynamic Data now requires a separate Web.DynamicData.dll and patch. I've also found strange behavior with databinding to EntityCollections of associations.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: AlanW

It's great. I would still like to see a more intuitive means of including data files in Click once deployment though.

Tuesday - 8/19/2008 Posted by: GuyO from Romulak Virginia

Where is the XSD Designer I really hate having to keep VS2005 around so that I can design a schema visually....

Wednesday - 8/20/2008 Posted by: GraemeW

Great but debugging tools are slipping

Wednesday - 8/20/2008 Posted by: DB Ninja

The UI is good. Finding help on even the simple items is like digging through a landfill looking for something you accidentally threw out last week. The slick features are more than overwhelmed by the time wasters.

Thursday - 8/21/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Visual Studio and MSDN Headlines on Start page are very stale and out of date.

Thursday - 8/21/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

I find things a little slower on 2008 than on 2005. I also miss in HTML view - when you paste attributes, 2005 would place them in a specific order - it was easier to find attributes after this... Other than that I am pretty impressed

Friday - 8/22/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

SP1 took a very LONG time to install. It would have been much quicker just to install a new version from scratch.

Friday - 8/22/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

It Locks up during Debug.

Sunday - 8/24/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

It has intermittent problems with package loading. I don't know why it is i9nconsistent in its behavior.

Sunday - 8/24/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Bugs sent to Microsoft don't get fixed.

Wednesday - 8/27/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Bugs reported 9 months ago still not fixed.

Wednesday - 8/27/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

The Silverlight Visual State Manager is all messed up in VS 2008 SP1 and has not yet been fixed.

Wednesday - 8/27/2008 Posted by: Anonymous

Documentation is severly lacking useful content.

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