Work with Visual Studio 2005 begins in earnest

So far most of my time spent with Visual Studoi 2005 has been just playing around. That's changing - I'm ramping up to do some serious development, 05 style, and looking forward to it.

After installing the November CTP, I was pretty impressed. In particular, the documentation really seems to be coming together - the coverage on some features (like Web Parts) seems to be dramatically improved. My first little project - interacting with the Index Server OLEDB driver - wasn't too successful, but that was a bit of a sideline project, so it doesn't worry me too much.

One thing that does worry me - or rather, baffles me - is that "Add Web Reference" in Visual Studio STILL generates fields rather than properties on web service proxies. I mentioned this back in the May CTP timeframe, and it's still a problem. WSDL.EXE does the right thing, but not Visual Studio. My bug report on the topic was kind of blown-off, but I've reopened it.

The good news is that the generated proxies are now flagged as partial, which is a good thing.

UPDATE - Microsoft has now said that the "Add Web Reference" generating fields problem is fixed in beta 2. Not only that, but my bug report on the topic won "Bug of the Week". Woo-hoo!