Visual Studio 11 Beta doesn't upgrade VS2010 SP1 projects

I haven't had much more of a chance to play with Visual Studio 11 Beta yet. However I thought I would mention one nice feature in the latest version. Projects and solutions created for VS2010 can be opened by VS11 without any kind of upgrade process taking place. This means that one can use the same projects and solutions in both VS2010 SP1 and VS11. Certainly makes a nice change having to go through the upgrade process for each new version of VS (even if it is usually trivial).

First impressions of VS11

I've finally found some time to have a very quick play with Visual Studio 11. As I previously mentioned it is unremittingly grey and a little depressing...so I personally hope they change this scheme for something more colourful (or at least less grey) - though I believe that VS now supports UI themes so we might even be able to create our own!

It was also noted during the installation process that the various dialog boxes have been "Metro-ised" to fit in with the new MS visual approach.

One quick observation on one of the cool new features in VS11 - expanding regular classes in solution explorer now allows one to view the variables, properties and methods on that class which is very nice and saves having to do the same via object browser or viewing the class directly in the editor.

I'm sure there are plenty of other cool new features which I look forward to discovering soon.