>Hi Walter,
>
>> Why on earth, with all the processing power available today, we still don't have type checking when writing the actual code ???
>
>Actually, VS 2005 does this in C# and (I think) VB.NET.

Are you sure? Intellisense will tell you the types, but it doesn't highlight typing issues until you've compiled, ex.

string date = new System.DateTime();
// or
int z = 0;
int.TryParse(12, out z);

I seem to remember add-ins like Resharper (www.jetbrains.com) do this, though.