This is a question that I've been pondering over for quite some time. The only reason for using VS over any other editor, is the help system. But wait, what help system? My point exactly. The help system that comes with Visual Studio 2010 is a very small subset of what the full MSDN Library used...
This is mostly a reference for the next time that I need to rebuild my workstation, but one of the causes for this is a bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 service pack. You need to run the service pack installation twice in order for it to correctly update all of the TFS client files. If you don't...