A lot of Visual Studio's customization comes from the Options pages (Tools | Options). Curious about what was new in Visual Studio 2008, I did a side-by-side comparison of the Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 Options pages. Here are the differences I found between the Team Editions for Software Developers.

Note: I actually tested between Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers, and Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite. I attempted to discern which additional options were part of Team Suite, and not additions from Visual Studio 2005. I may have also hosed either environment. Therefore this list may not be conclusive or completely accurate, though every attempt blah blah blah…

On with it mate!

Projects and Solutions | VB Defaults

• A setting was added to allow Option Infer to be turned on or off by default.

Text Editor

• Two new sections were added named XAML and XOML.

Text Editor | C# | Advanced

• A setting was added under the Refactoring group titled 'Warn on members with compiler generated references'.
• A new section was added, 'Organize Usings', which contains two new settings:
  • Warn if build errors exist when organizing usings
  • Place 'System' directives first when sorting usings

Text Editor | C# | Formatting | New Lines

• Several new settings were added under the 'New line options for braces' group:
  • Place open brace on new line for anonymous types
  • Place open brace on new line for object initializers
  • Place open brace on new line for lambda expressions
• A new group titled 'New line options for expressions' was added, containing the following settings:
  • Place members in object initializers on new line
  • Place members in anonymous types on new line
  • Place query expression clauses on new line

Text Editor | C# | Formatting | Spacing

• In the 'Set other spacing options' group, the following setting was added:
  • Ignore spaces in declaration statements

Text Editor | C# | IntelliSense

• In the IntelliSense Member Selection group, the Clear History button was removed.

Text Editor | HTML | Miscellaneous

• Removed – Enable property grid in Source view
• Added – Only use TAB to commit Jscript statement completion

Text Editor | HTML | Validation

• In the Options | Show Errors group, the following settings were added:
  • as warnings (HTML, CSS)
  • as warnings (JScript)

Debugging | General

• A setting was added titled 'Warn if script debugging is disabled on launch'.

Debugging | Edit and Continue

• A setting was added called 'Enable while remote debugging or debugging an application running under another user account.'

HTML Designer | General

• In the 'Start Pages in' group, a new option called 'Split View' was added.
• The Smart Tags group was removed.
• Three new check options were added:
  • Assign unique IDs to new tables
  • Auto keyboard switching
  • Split views vertically

HTML Designer | CSS Positioning

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HTML Designer | Display

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HTML Designer | CSS

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HTML Designer | CSS Styling

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HTML Designer | Ruler and Grid

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HTML Designer | View

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