Last night, I fired up Visual Studio codenamed "Orcas" in Virtual PC and started to play around with the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. One of the things that struck me was the baffling regression in the way that New Project options are presented to the user.
Some of you may remember, in Everett (VS .NET 2003) you got a project wizard after selecting the Smart Device Project type in the New Project dialog. Well, it's back albeit in a slightly different form. Firstly, in the New Project dialog box, you are only presented with one option for a Smart Device project, as shown in the image below. In Visual Studio 2005, you have a number of options covering all the basic project types -- class libraries, console apps, control libraries, winforms apps and empty project.
After selecting the Smart Device Project option and entering the name of the project, you are presented with the new project wizard:
I have to admit, I much, much prefer the New Project dialog box from Visual Studio 2005. In VS 2005, I find it much faster to find the type of projectI want to create and also requires less UI interaction (fewer clicks, less mouse movement):
What are your thoughts? Should Microsoft stick with the new wizard or go back to VS 2005 dialog?