I'd take Consolas over Courier New any time. Turns out it is available for a free download, so having Vista or Office is not a requirement.

If you're still using Courier New in Visual Studio because you haven't tried anything else - give Consolas a try.

In Visual Studio: Tools -> Options -> Fonts and Colors

I used to have a CopySourceAsHtml visual studio add in to post sharply formatted code to blog. But it produced really dirty html which actually made my dasBlog unhappy and for some reason it doesn’t work well (or just doesn’t work) in vs2005.

Here’s a really nice macro on coding horror that works in any visual studio version and creates a much cleaner code. It’s a bit painful to install, but then you can assign a shortcut and forget. Mine is ctrl-c + ctrl-c.

Update: which wasn't a great idea for a hotkey..

It seems that web application project creates blank *.designer.cs files in total silence if you forget to reference assembly with the controls you have on the page. I've run into that while moving sdn5 msvs project into web application and forgetting to reference Sitecore.Webcontrols.

Previously:
* MSVS Web Application Project refresh
* All hail the web application projects

Web application project has been a bless for me so far.. Although there's no migration wizard yet, converting the www.sitecore.net MSVS 2005 project (which I'm currenly working on) was a snap, and it was a huge relief from the first minute.

The project is basically a good old class library but with working asp.net designers, and thats good.

* Upgrading VS 2005 Web Site Projects to be VS 2005 Web Application Project
* Upgrading VS 2003 Web Projects to be VS 2005 Web Application Projects

Speaking of web application projects in MSVS, it looks like they had a brand new refresh with long awaited codebeside updater. Known issues look unsignificant, except for Migration Wizard, perhaps. Looking forward to try that.