Introduction
The public Beta of Visual Studio 2005 brings you a stable preview of Visual Basic 2005 in which the new features have solidified to the point where few changes should occur before the RTM release. Some things are sure to change, of course, but you can expect the final product to look much like the Beta 1 preview. Even so, I recommend you don't install the Beta on a production machine, but rather run inside the safety of a Microsoft Virtual PC image.
Major changes to the Visual Basic language include My, XML comments, and generics. Several new language statements fill in logical gaps including Using, Continue, and TryCast, and the Global keyword. There are a number of structural improvements including changes to property accessor accessibility, custom event accessors, partial types, and application-level events. Operator overloading and conversion operators are new, along with the IsNot operator. Other useful changes include unsigned types, form default instances, compiler warnings, and explicit array bounds.
The first time you start Visual Studio 2005, you're prompted to select your preferred IDE settings. These settings control features such as IDE key mappings, window layouts, and code formatting in the code editor. You can change your settings at any time using the Tools | Import/Export Settings menu item as shown in Figure 1. You can import default settings for another programming language, or you can import custom settings files that all developers use in your company.
Figure 1. Import custom settings to standardize the development environment at your company
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