One Small Step

Leanna is writing the first of many "Honey-Do" lists for me, little errands for me to run tomorrow. Not on the list, but certainly something I'd like to accomplish tomorrow is installing Visual Studio 2008. They sent me beta invites, put it up through the MSDN subscription and now sent it to me on DVD in the quarterly package that arrived today. I think I owe it to them after all the trouble to install and see what all the fuss is about.

One of the things I'm really excited about is code metrics. I'm always interested, not coming from a formal training background, to see how my work ranks up. The new code analysis tools show maintainability and complexity of code parts. There's a good overview here. Watching a video on the Microsoft site, I'm seeing a lot of code optimization work going into it. For example, I will from time to time have parameters in functions that I might need in testing but forget to remove in a shipped project, and Code Analysis will apparently find all of this and take care of it.

We'll see how it goes. Anyone using VS2008 already?