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I just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and tried it on Sumatra. Unlike Beta 1 it properly converted project file from vs 2008. After playing with it for a few minutes it looks like a worthy upgrade to 2008 which is why it stings even more when a useful functionality is missing.

Lenovo’s thinkpads have nice feature of combined TrackPoint and UltraNav that allows easy scrolling in many apps (I think they generate scroll-wheel events). Unfortunately the new, rewritten editor in 2010 doesn’t seem to support this kind of scrolling and it’s one of those features that I use very often and became so dependent on it that it’s hard to use an application that doesn’t support it.

Here’s me hoping that it was just lack of time in beta 2 cycle and it’ll be supported in final release, since it would be really painful to use the editor on a ThinkPad laptop without it.