posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:39 AM
by
kevdaly
Visual Studio 2008 includes a refreshed image library
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but as the title of this post says Visual Studio 2008 includes an updated version of the image library (icons, bitmaps and so on for use in applications) that shipped with Visual Studio 2005.
More consistent and helpful categorisation has been introduced to the organisation of the library, there is an entire category of common elements to be included in new imagery, and most importantly from my point of view there is new Vista-specific imagery, something that was definitely on my wish list.
This will be good news for anyone who noticed that the library that shipped with the betas was unchanged from Visual Studio 2005 and may have been worried that that's all we'd get.
This is another touch that may seem small by itself but is one of the many elements that make Visual Studio 2008 the first version that really seems at home on Vista (apart from anything else, the VS 2005+VS 2005 SP1+Update for Vista setup reminded me uncomfortably of the bad old days of NT4 + Whatever The Hell Service Pack That Was + the NT 4 Option Pack just to run ASP...ah, those were the days. But I digress).