Visual C# 2008 Express Edition

Since last review was on VB 2008 Express we will now look a bit closer on Visual C# 2008 Express Edition.

The part called "Evolution of GUI" of our last review fits exactly also to the C# Express Edition - and also to the professional Editions (but there are more changes).

Also the project types are similar to VB Express.

The new WPF Designer Features fit to VB and C#.

So looking what's new in the Application Properties Tab.

Application Properties

Tab Application

There is a little surprise. The VB Version does not support changing the target Framework. If you expect that also for the C# Version you are wrong. Visual C# Express can do it!

But there is another surprise: No View 'UAC Settings button'. Since the UAC Settings are stored inside the application.manifest file I think you can easily get this functionality by using a text editor.

Except this there are no major changes in the application projects which are not in the VB Version. As the VB Version C# support now modifiers for resources and settings.

 

 

So you might ask: What is with .net's, c#'s and VB's new cool functionalities? You have not mentioned them in one word?

The answer is: This was a review of the IDE. .net Features are features of .net - nor of visual Studio. And also the language features are not depending on Visual Studio.

All three cases are worth for getting special reviews.