I figured I would post about my first use with the new Visual Studio and its version of ASP.NET. Let me start off by saying I am very impressed. I’m always the last one to bash Microsoft about their product (at least the development portion). As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft has provided me with a good development toolset to accomplish what I need to.

I got to work in the new studio for some work related stuff and boy was I impressed. Is it just me or the speed of that IDE is *very* fast? Granted I was working on a small web project but the UI felt so snappy and responsive. Even something simple like working on template columns in a grid was greatly improved. I found myself not having to revert between HTML and design view so much. The ASP.NET team definetly cleaned up the weak parts of the product.

I’ve been working on a few side projects messing around with ASP.NET 2.0, especially the “Atlas” framework (or whatever they want to call it this week). Looks like some very cool stuff to me.

This is some of the first free time I’ve had lately to put a post up on here. I’ve been working on pinball machines a lot lately and just working in general. It looks like I’ll be visiting St. Louis pretty soon, gotta find some interesting stuff to do while I’m there. I think it’s time I crash now since I’m stuffed from Thanksgiving. I have to go find some pumpkin pie tomorrow, there was none at the family dinner. Bummer!