Windows 7
So far I’m impressed with the speed and stability of Windows 7. When I had Vista, it would crash once a week or so and sometimes come back with the nice side effect of the sound not working … never quite figured that one out.
So far I’ve had a couple of strange issues other than these everything is great so far:
- Sometimes (only sometimes) after I do something that causes the administrator password dialog to popup, one of the monitors starts blinking. I’ve found if I reach down and unplug the cable, then plug it back in – it stops.
- The Copy Path shell extension won’t work as a normal user. I’m not sure if this is a 64bit thing or a Windows 7 thing.
The printer on my print server only worked once so far and now I can't seem to get it to work again – but I’m having the same issue using an Xp machine – so this probably isn’t related to Win 7 … just a funny coincidence.
VS 2010
I just installed VS 2010 this weekend – which installed with no problems. I like the new color scheme. I also like the F# that is now in the msdn sample code (side note: now we need a Reflector Language Addin for F#). The new start page is kind of cool and I like the idea of creating my own customized start page (VS 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization).
Today I ran into some weirdness debugging tests. When I set a breakpoint and stopped the test (paused), then click the stop button (instead of the continue) the test seemed to go ahead and finish anyways.
I also ran into some strangeness with having to get the code to build whenever there was a syntax error, before the intellisense would work or help me out.
I like the “Sort by” dropdown on the new items dialog … finally!
The responsiveness of the application as a whole is better than what I expected, but so far I’ve only been working with unit tests, windows forms, console apps and the like – no xaml, wf or anything like that yet.