Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was
announced and I wrote about it in my blog. Today I wanted to
give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual
Declarative Designer - looks like. This one really deserves the
“toy” designation. In fact writing some code that does similar
things might actually make an interesting assignment. Well
except for the fact that this add-on actually includes the
generated code directly into the program in the IDE. Making that
work would be a whole lot more of a trick. :-)  Any way, what
does it do? It allows a user to specify information about a
variable or structure and automatically generate the code for it
and include it into the program. It works for both Visual Basic
and C#. The image below shows it at work for C# and generating a
declaration for an integer array.   As you can see a limited set
of the most commonly used variable types are supported – Int,
String, Boolean, Array (of Integer or string) and Struct. Two
dimensional arrays are supp