One of the new features that came with Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1, is the real-time compiler errors (feature I read VB developers have had for a long time).

So if you type something wrong, you see it without having to compile

I've been working with it for two days, and I definitely don't like it, it distracts me to have errors appearing and disappearing all the time, it doesn't even let you finish writing the line, it shows an error when there isn't one (I just need to finish the line please!). I found myself trying to type faster to avoid seeing the "error".

I'm sure they had good intentions.

Luckily, almost anything can be turned off, you just need to find it.

If you go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced, and uncheck "Show live semantic errors", it works like before, only showing hints

I will go back to the old ways with this one...

You can download the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 from here (which includes the .NET 3.5 SP1)

Following those links you have the information regarding what fixes and new features they bring

The ASP.NET new features include

Enjoy!

As part of the development framework we are creating here in Iceberg I wanted to create a base web site that developers could use as a starting point, with themes, master pages, and some default properties set in the web.config file to use our database and membership engines.

My initial thought was to create it, and then have them copy/paste it to start a new web site, until I came across the "Export template..." feature in visual studio.

Basically what it does is package a project or item so it can be reused, exactly what I wanted.

Let's test it... first I create a project

And I added a few items, just to not let it the same as the default project

Then I go to File, Export template

You are presented with this self-explanatory dialog box

You click next, then finish, and that's it... you can add a new project and select this template as many times as you want (You can set a custom Icon and a Description if you want, play a little with this options if you like)