I agree, some of the auto-formatting is quite annoying (although you can turn it off if you want) -- it formats some code very differently than the way I want it done. But the intellisense in VS2003 is a lot better than in VB6, where it would give you the message boxes. That does not happen in VC#.

Intellisense in VS2005, unfortunately, is at once better and more invasive. I encountered some situations in which it seemed to override what I wanted, based on -- who knows what... Hoping that was a bug.