Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional review

Any pricing on the Ultimate version?

By TimoGunt on 16 Apr 2010

Sluggish

I was using it yesterday and last night and I have to say that compared to 2008 the intellisense does seem very sluggish - enough so to be irritating. If I start typing a new line in VS2008 the intellisense list appears instantly whereas in 2010 there's a slight delay. The tooltips also hang around for slightly longer - all this 'slightly' stuff adds up.

More annoying are the 'invalid code' squiggles that appear when you've only partially typed something and vanish when you complete it - their sluggishness makes them feel much more intrusive in 2010.

I'm not sure whether it's the fact that intellisense has more to do, what with all the new features, or that WCF is just plain slower than the old method.

They may seem like minor gripes but this is the kind of stuff that's in your face 100% of the time you're using it. It's a pity; for features, 2010 wins hands-down but for user experience it's a poor second.

By nelviticus on 16 Apr 2010

re Ultimate Pricing

If you have to ask, you can't afford it!

Seriously, it's v v expensive

By DaveLal on 16 Apr 2010

Re: Ultimate

It's about £11,000 new or £3,500 as an upgrade. Well, you did ask!

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By vikojhons on 17 Apr 2010

As nelviticus says, there is a 'sluggish' feeling to it.
This was mentioned during the beta and the answer was that it was due to being beta code and would disappear on the RTM version. Needless to say, it hasn't!

By Ex_Sailor on 17 Apr 2010

hmm maybe it comes with the MSDN subscription. Me thinks not.
11k! maybe I missed what was on the features list because it didn't seem like there was a great deal more

By TimoGunt on 19 Apr 2010

Well at least the professional edition is free..

Unfortunately only for students, https://www.dreamspark.com/ but I've been playing around with VS 2010 Pro for a bit now - it certainly FEELS more efficient, like tabbed browsing - not sure whether I prefer it though

By all4nothing on 21 Apr 2010

"Want to add "this." in front of 20 consecutive method calls? All you need to do is select your lines and type "this." to have it instantly entered 20 times."

How do I do this? As I'm not fully sure...

By mjb3000 on 28 Apr 2010

It like my finger just got old...

I'm a video game programmer by trade.
I spend a lot of time inside visual studo, ~40 hours a week.
Ever since Visual studio 6.0, it has been my favourite text editor.
We have recently moved from VS2008 to VS2010 due to the microsoft only supporting the XBox sdk in VS2010.
We find it very slow when working with large solutions (200+ projects). When the solution contains multiple configuration (10+) is also become very unstable.
The new rectangular cut'n'paste functionality is very nice. It's just so sluggish.

By ProgrammerPete on 12 May 2012

It like my finger just got old...

I'm a video game programmer by trade.
I spend a lot of time inside visual studo, ~40 hours a week.
Ever since Visual studio 6.0, it has been my favourite text editor.
We have recently moved from VS2008 to VS2010 due to the microsoft only supporting the XBox sdk in VS2010.
We find it very slow when working with large solutions (200+ projects). When the solution contains multiple configuration (10+) is also become very unstable.
The new rectangular cut'n'paste functionality is very nice. It's just so sluggish.

By ProgrammerPete on 12 May 2012