David Hayden [MVP C#] - All Comments

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

David Hayden — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:56:15 GMT

Chris,

It is hard to believe, I know :) There are a number of other tools that do not provide "background compiling" or code analysis ( mainly just code highlighting, various macros, etc. ) that a lot of people use and will benefit from this new feature for C# I suspect.

Personally, I probably won't use it.

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re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

Chris Holmes — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:34:38 GMT

"...this is much needed functionality for those developers who are not using ReSharper or another tool that provides similar code analysis in the background."

Do those developers really exist?

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

David Hayden — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:57:08 GMT

Neil,

In the options for the C# editor there are a couple of options that you can turn on and off:

- Underline errors in the editor.

- Show live semantic errors.

It sounds like you have the option to not use this feature if you find it causes you performance problems or is not visually appealing.

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

David Hayden — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:51:19 GMT

I am not sure.

I suspect Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is just doing a "compile" in the background and displaying compiler related errors. As you know, ReSharper goes well beyond compiler errors and gives you warnings and code suggestions that would not be picked up by the compiler.

My favorite example of this is ReSharper's notification icon ( warning ) for an infinite loop in the code :)

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:12:15 GMT

So how does this really differ from what R# gives you besides the fact that it is built in?

Also, wonder how it plays with R#

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#

Neil — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:20:13 GMT

I haven't used this yet, but I really hope that it is not as much of a pain as the equivalent functionality that VB.NET provides. It may be my machine is not zippy enough, but for me in VB it turns coding into a slow and painful experience as after typing keywords your flow of typing is interrupted by VS checking what you have typed.

I've always enjoyed that this did not happen with C#, especially as such mistakes are quite rare, and sometimes intentional (if you haven't added the method declaration yet but are about - such as when writing a unit test).

Also will the bottom-left or bottom-right underscores that offer to add using statements, or to implement methods now be obscured by the squiggles? I hope not.

re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

David Hayden — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:49 GMT

Mario,

I haven't personally tried Vista with Fusion so I cannot say much about it. I can say that XP works wonderfully. And there you have the beauty of the Mac - if you choose not to run XP or Vista in Fusion you can still wipe the Mac clean and have a really fast PC to run Vista on. I am happy with XP and Fusion while running some really cool Mac apps, so I plan to stay here for now.

re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

David Hayden — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:25:29 GMT

Jeff,

Very cool that you are using those mac applications as I have been using them myself.

re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

JoeH — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:17:27 GMT

damn. i'm glad we got visual studio so you're using at least one of our products.

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re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

mario — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:58:18 GMT

I tried to use OSX and VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro for several months and I finally gave up. There is a noticeable speed difference when running Visual Studio 2008 in Vista x64 than in Fusion. The rest of my apps, like Office, work fine in Fusion. There are too many quirks I cannot get used to in OSX, app insonsistencies (install/uninstall for example), menu bar on one screen when using dual displays, windows not resizeable on all borders, horrible mouse acceleration. The last straw was the OSX update which made my system crawl ... I cleanly wiped OSX out and now just run Vista x64 SP1 with VMWare Workstation to run Server 2003 images. I'm a happy camper again.

re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

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re: MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and other Rumblings...

jlynch — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:10:42 GMT

David,

Wow. I'm in the middle of doing exactly the same thing (Macbook, Coda & CSSEdit) and am beginning development of an iPhone app using xCode in OS X.

Jeff