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So I’ve been playing with some of the features found in the VS 2005 IDE and came up with a couple interesting improvements. Here are some screenshots.

This first one shows an alignment aid when working with WinForms in layout mode. The slight purple line on the left side of the text controls helps to align them. Nifty.

Next we have the fact that FXCop appears to be part of the IDE

Finally, the VS team seems to have been working on a way to describe the meta data of a datasource that needs to be bound to a form. Have a look here. Meta data being information as to how a specific datasource should render - for example that boolean field should always render as a check box.

By extension the same rule is applied to an entire datatable for example, giving the dev the opportunity to specify that it should render as grid or detail view. Screenshot here If the dev followed some simple common naming practices, the IDE will generate nicely set up labels automatically. I like it.