Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is an excellent tool, despite some of the issues. It really shines with .NET 3.5. There are noticeable impressive improvements in the opening projects. Unfortunately, there were still some issues with performance such as HTML paste performance, ASP.NET refactoring, SQLCE performance problems, XML comments still slow, Plain text editor and memory footprint. IntelliSense uses fairly sophisticated algorithms to show you completions and suggestions. After a while, you come to rely on it and using Notepad is painful.

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