Video: How Do I: Learn About the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008?

In this video, Chris Pels discusses the new features and changes to the IDE in Visual Studio 2008. See the updated Web page editor, WPF form designer, CSS editor, and more.

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Hi this is Chris tells in his video to take a look at some of the changes and additions to the Visual Studio 2008 ID most the settings from Visual Studio or five can be imported into a way and when you first install a weight if it s on the same machine is so fine point he started out to be prompted as to whether or not you want to migrate euro five development settings forward in this case have already installed only previously so we wouldn t get that prompt but there is a way to manually import settings from all five let s take a look at it do that It sheer over 205 and we cooked tools menu select import and export settings export and you can then select which of the settings you would like to import or rather export in this case is take the monster comics

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Selected and then in prompts us as to where we want to store the settings file which think that default safe with exported settings world said here in 05 foot back over 208 to a similar process but in this case will import tools important export settings import counts is whether we want to save the current settings and ideas will take that and here we have to select which settings we want to import in this case we won a court that 05 settings file right here that we exported and it will select that file next and then brings in all the settings you could alter those settings here meaning that we could choose not to import some of the ones that we exported from all five launched over that you just click finish and it will import all the settings

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Final thing to note here is that any third party add ins or code snippets will not be automatically migrated forward and you will have to migrate to manually the community menu in TSO five here has been removed in a way diversion and surly options have been migrated forward in two new options in a way he asked a question and check questions status are now in an MSDN forums option and send feedback has been renamed to report about the other options in a community menu are no longer available for switchover to await here and just take a look at where these options live now and so the community menu is known here as I just mentioned and under help we have the MSDN forms which is previously in a Senate question and check on a question and that these

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Feedback as this it is now report about several general IDE improvements herein only and to demonstrate a few these are done is created based solution here with a single website and class library and open up several of the classes and pages here is also what does config file now in previous versions when hit control tag you just been shown a list of the open windows so you can move them in this one when I hit control temple we get is a nice summary window that shows us an early that names the active files but the tool windows that we currently have open in a new CSI cycle through the files it gives us a little thumbnail on the right side which shows us the contents of that window which makes a little easier for selection you can then honestly migrate nor move to that particular window you selected

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