Visual Studio 2010 Screencast: C# 4.0 Language + IDE + WPF Shell + Editor

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It so happened that I recorded a quick 30-minutes video (screencast) showing the new features in the language and the IDE – and I did all this on a recent internal build of Visual Studio 2010, which has the WPF UI enabled. The video is very basic, I don’t go into any details, it’s mainly a quick overview and how features look like:

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You can also download or view the .wmv file here: https://guilabs.de/video/CSharp4.wmv

Features covered:

  1. Language (0:00)
    1. Dynamic (0:30)
    2. Named and optional (3:20)
    3. Co/Contravariance (11:10)
    4. NoPIA, omit ref etc. (16:35)
  2. IDE (18:45)
    1. Call Hierarchy (18:50)
    2. Quick Symbol Search (23:00)
    3. Highlight References (25:30)
    4. Crash!! (26:15)
    5. Generate From Usage (26:50)
    6. fix aggressive IntelliSense (consume first, list filtering) (29:50)