Also in VS 2005 you didn't have compilation on-the-fly - so you wouldn't get the annoying squiggly lines for undeclared properties. That only came in 2008 SP1 I

Also in VS 2005 you didn't have compilation on-the-fly - so you wouldn't get the annoying squiggly lines for undeclared properties. That only came in 2008 SP1 I think. And Generate property was also added to VS quite a long time ago - but sometimes it doesn't have enough information of course like if (object.nonexistant != null) ....