Visual Studio 2008 Tips (Running Log)

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Hello all,

Let's use this thread to post new and neat things we learn about VS 2008 that you may not have known without reading here or somewhere else. For example, I'll start this off:

I read in an article recently, and wouldn't have known this feature existed without reading it, that when Intellisense is showing you the list of available selections, you can make the intellisense list transparent by holding down the CTRL key. There may be times when you need to see code that the intellisense popup is blocking, so as you hold the CTRL key down, it becomes semi-transparent so you can see through the popup list. Pretty neat.

Reply to this thread with your new discoveries, things we should know that people may not know about VS 2008.
 
WSE is dead in VS 2008! This one caught us by surprise, we upgraded our VS 2005 solutions today which we use WS-* extensively, and low and behold, after the migrations to VS 2008 we get a ton of errors along the lines of WSE. After researching we learned that Microsoft has essentially dead ended WSE 3 at VS 2005 and has no plans to continue WSE 3 forcing everyone to move to WCF if you wish to use WS-* in VS 2008.

Yes, it is time to learn WCF, but it sure would have been nice to continue to use WSE that is already well integrated into our web services architecture.
 
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