So I attended VSDevCon 2005with somepeople yesterday...
I attended the Visual Studio TeamSystems track.. which included a whole range of feature showings from systemdegisners, class designers, debugger visualizers, and much more.
All in all it was decent, sorry for the lack of a real review as most of it was washedaway in the happy hour we skipped the ending keynote for ;)
A few things that I saw that I really liked (which I already knew about but wanted tosee in action)...
Debugger visualizers - imagine having an image variable in your code be displayed asthe actual graphic when you're stepping through... or an HTML snippet actually hosted andparsed.
Testing framework - not as big of a deal (cause we already have NUnit) , but it'sintegrated better.. web tests are kinda fun, visual studio could be the next tool forDDOS attacks...
Class Designer - synchronized visualization of your class... pretty neato..
Code Snippets
Debugger enhancements
Runtime exceptions while debugging are better
Generics - not just for collections
Edit and Continue - mmmmmm
IW Kid (link above) posted some of the freebies that were recieved. I decided to takeadvantage of the temporary tatoo and branded my arm in Visual Studio 2005 flare. Plus Ihelped out some people at the conference when the presenters didn't have answers to theirquestions, I definitely get them my humble opinion :)