Jason Zander has revealed the new UI for Visual Studio 2010.

Here are some of the features of the improved IDE:

Reduced clutter and visual complexity by removing excessive lines and gradients in the UX and modernized the interface by removing outdated 3D bevels
Placed focus on content areas by opening negative space between windows and drawing attention to the current focus with a dominant accent color and a distinctive background
Added an inviting new palette to make VS 2010 more distinctive
Triangle glyphs in the margin are used to collapse or expand your code blocks
Collapsed sections of code are marked with an empty triangle (pointing straight) as well as a set of ellipses
Colors on the margin indicate edits that have been made
• New Project dialog has updated to include online template viewing, a search box, and easier navigation
• New Extensions Manager to improve searching and installing VS extensions

It's looking pretty good. I can't wait for a new ctp or beta release to update The Future of Managed Code presentation.

If you're using code generation, it's a good idea to remember that you can call the default constructor for a class from an overloaded constructor. This is easy to accomplish:

public Person(int age) : this()

Ron Jacobs recently discovered the necessity of doing this when he noticed his generated classes weren't functioning correctly. I'm sure it was a pain to track down the cause of the malfunctioning class. His lesson learned is a good one, "if you are creating a partial class and overload constructors it would be a very good idea to call the default ctor just like it is a very good idea to call the default base ctor from a derived class."

You can chain constructors in this way as well. This can be used to make parameters default to a value.

public Person() : this(18)
public Person(int age)

In C# 4.0 this will not be necessary, as we will finally have optional parameters.

public MyClass(int age =  18)

This can get interesting with the default constructor. Because of the betterness factor, the default constructor (if it exists) would be called instead of the version with the optional parameter if one were to instantiate the class without parameters. Keep this in mind next year when you receive that fresh copy of Visual Studio 2010.