Whidbey Community Technology Preview

I can not believe it has been almost a month since I posted last.  I apologize for the lack of posts.

This is old news, but I finally got the Whidbey Community Technology Preview installed.  First I would like to say to those individuals that are writing menu and ui controls that mimic VS.NET and Office to get ready to update them.  Microsoft is famous for changing there UI for there various programs, more importantly Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft Office.  The new preview has a new look and feel to it.

It uses the Microsoft Office 2003 style toolbars and menus but they went with a silver gradient.  The tabs are using a more rounded look.  The toolbox has a collapse and expand compared to the Outlook style “slide” menu.  I like this much better since you can quickly close and expand the sections you want access to...

It has a much cleaner and crisp look to it.  I like it much better then 2003.

Microsoft is already taking advantage of the partial classes with there code generation.  The InitializeComponent() method as well as the designer code is split off into a file you will not have access to unless you first “Show All Files” under the Solution Explorer.  I feel this is much better since you only deal with the event hooks and code you write.

I am very pleased with what I see so far.  I will post more as I mess around with it more.  Some of the things I post will most likely be restated information that most of you have already seen, but you never know.  I might actually post something useful for once.

Take care