The list of new features in Visual Basic 2005 includes these goodies:
OneClick - I featured this in a separate article. To read it, Click Here!
Task List Improvements - More information is displayed and you get better control such as column sorting and column drag and drop.
The Immediate Window is Back - Like "Edit and Continue" (below), the powerful simplicity of being able to just type in a statement and see what it does was taken away from us in Visual Studio 2003 but restored again in the VS 2005. Welcome Back!
Just My Code - This is another new feature of Visual Studio 2005. You enable it with Tools > Options > Debugging > General > Just My Code. If you've ever had the experience of trying to step through a program and constantly having to step out of complex system code that just gets in the way, then "Just My Code" is "Just For You".
Snap Lines - The design window now has a feature that you might have seen in other products: the ability to "snap" graphical components to lines for fast, professional looking formatting. Visual Studio has long had some pretty spiffy formatting tools, but these make the process almost completely effortness.
Guide Diamonds for Window Docking - If you're like me, you have wasted time trying to get a Visual Studio 2003 window to simply dock where you want it. The Visual Studio 2003 windows can be like cats trying to avoid a bath! Visual Studio 2005 makes it, quite literally, a "snap" with a new graphical device that pops up on the screen which Microsoft calls "guide diamonds".
Improved Runtime Exception Handling - If a runtime error interrupts your program now, a popup window points to the location of the error, gives you suggestions for fixing it and provides links with actions you can take.
