Jason Zander has revealed the new UI for Visual Studio 2010. Here are some of the features of the improved IDE: Reduced clutter and visual complexity by removing excessive lines and gradients in the UX and modernized the interface by removing outdated 3D bevels Placed focus on content areas by opening negative space between windows and drawing attention to the current focus with a dominant accent color and a distinctive background Added an inviting new palette to make VS 2010 more distinctive Triangle ......
If you're using code generation, it's a good idea to remember that you can call the default constructor for a class from an overloaded constructor. This is easy to accomplish: public Person(int age) : this() Ron Jacobs recently discovered the necessity of doing this when he noticed his generated classes weren't functioning correctly. I'm sure it was a pain to track down the cause of the malfunctioning class. His lesson learned is a good one, "if you are creating a partial class and overload constructors ......