We’ve been providing feedback to the Windows Forms and Client Data development teams at Microsoft regarding the next release of the Visual Studio IDE, named Visual Studio 2005, and codenamed “Whidbey”. From our experience with the alpha versions of Visual Studio 2005, the overall theme is definitely improving developer productivity; doing more with fewer mouse-clicks and by writing less code. The following is the first half of a “top-ten” list of features that we have found to be most compelling to our current development projects:  Read more ...