First experiences with Visual Studio 2008
Posted by fr3dr1k | Filed under ASP.NET
I attended the Microsoft Mix Essentials ‘08 event on the 26th of June 2008 and got two pieces of trial software, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Microsoft Expressions Web. Today I am installing Visual Studio, and it’s taken 20 minutes so far to install. It’s a 2.9 GB install!!
The features I am most excited about is support for Silverlight and WPF as well as intellisense for Javascript and CSS. There are also a few server controls that Brad Abrams demonstrated that I am very excited. One server control in particular allows you to specify the type of markup that should appear in a server control instead of just accepting (or being forced) to live with the markup provided. Gridview controls use tables for layout, and I am pretty sure DataList controls do as well, and the simple fact is that tables are not always desirable.
