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I've just come across Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio. Once installed the consolas font will replace the default Courier New front in Visual Studio. This font is suppose to be easier to read on screen than Courier.
The font is part of the new font packs that are going to be shipped with Vista, I think the only one that has been official released is the Consolas font in the Font pack for Visual Studio.
On the face of it the Consolas fonts looks much clearer than the Courier font.
Note: Though you can just install the Font Pack without VS2005, I think that the licence for use of the font (outside of a Vista environment) is covered if you have a licence for VS2005 and have it installed.
I tried this at work in my VS2003 IDE and at home on VS2005.
This is a screen shot of the code using the original Courier Font (click on the images for original image)
Once I had installed the Font Pack I changed the default VS font to Consolas.
Hopefully you can see it from the screenshots that i've found the M and the L a bit difficult to read.
I've got installed the ClearType Tuner power tool from Microsoft, which allows be to tune my ClearType setting.
I don't use ClearType on my desktops because I find that the text is more difficult to read especially on windows menus. However I've switched it on to see what affects it has on the new font.
As you see that it was a little bit clearer, though the effects that ClearType has on the other parts of desktop, makes it for me unusable.
I'll give the new font a go at home anyway. The monitor that I use at home is alot better than the one I've got at work. I've found that the font becomes much easier to read above the default 10pt that the code is defaulted to.
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Well it looks like INDC (Irish .Net Developer Conference) last week in Dublin was a great success, thanks to all the community leaders of Ireland (with some help from Rob and Claire) for organising it.
Sorry again for not being able to make it, (I'm currently flat out at work and couldn't get the time off), so thanks to Martin for standing in as our NIMTUG contact and to Damien who had to work his bank holiday to get down. I havn't heard from him since then are you guys sure that he got on the train back to Belfast 
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The content is started to be listed on the INDC site from the conference and I'm sure that it would be worth going through the stacks for anyone (like me) who couldn't make it.
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I've written a custom labeller for CruiseControl which creates version number simularly to those created by Visual Studio.
CCNet MS Project Labeller download and documentation