Jelle Druyts

Whew, I finally got the new Whidbey build installed. Seems that you need to uninstall the previous version of Whidbey first - which I can understand for Visual Studio .NET and the likes; but what about the .NET Framework? It had to go although I thought it had strong versioning... So that all took quite some time already, but I think I used my waiting time well. Ask me tomorrow how my tiramisu turned out

Anyway, when installing Visual Studio I had to start over a few times because it turned out there was an error in one of the cab files. From the name of the cab (something with CE in it) I guessed it had something to do with the Compact Edition of the framework so I tossed all that out and I got it running now

Anyway, some first GUI impressions: it all looks a bit fancier. Office style toolbars, shark-fin tabs, updated icons, realtime-rendered DirectX breakpoints (uhm, ok so they have a 3D look now), ... Ah and they finally got rid of that awkward Toolbox list thingy and replaced it by a much more useable expandable list control with an actual scrollbar this time. Good work.

Ok, already a quick non-GUI impression: I've had it installed only for a few minutes and it already crashed once. Alpha software is so cool Now - to get me some sleep!