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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Reasons for Upgrading to Visual Studio 2005

This installment of “The Baker’s Dozen” covers some of the major features in Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 offers language, data handling, and development environment enhancements that are sure to please many developers. Programmers who are currently using Visual Studio .NET 2003 will find many ways to write more efficient code and increase their overall productivity. In addition, programmers who are new to .NET will find the migration to Visual Studio 2005 a bit easier than the migration to the first version of .NET. While it’s not possible to talk about every new feature in Visual Studio 2005, this article will cover many of the primary changes and enhancements.

By Kevin Goff

October 14, 2005 1 min read

Updated January 18, 2020

About the author

Kevin Goff

Kevin S. Goff, a Microsoft MVP, wrote The Baker's Dozen productivity series in CODE Magazine from 2004 - 2019, and in 2020 he began the Stages of Data productivity series in CODE Magazine.

Kevin has been an applications developer, architect, and technology mentor since 1987. Kevin has worked in many lines of business, including insurance, manufacturing, health care, consumer packaged goods, accounting and finance, advertising, and many others. Along the way, Kevin has won several awards in both the public and private sector for applications development. Additionally, Kevin has taught SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing classes to hundreds of students over a period of five years and has built numerous custom courseware modules along the way.

Kevin has authored one book on reporting development and contributed chapters on MDX programming to a second book. He is currently developing a set of commercial video training courses for SQL Server and BI topics. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2010 and was previously a .NET/C# MVP from 2005 to 2009.

Kevin is a frequent speaker at User Group and other community events (SQL Saturday, SharePoint Saturday, Code Camp) in the Mid-Atlantic region, and speaks occasionally at conferences. In 2012 Kevin worked with Microsoft TechNet Radio on a 13 week webcast series on new features in SQL Server 2012.

For more information, check out Kevin’s main site at http://www.KevinSGoff.net, or email him at kgoff@kevinsgoff.net