Re: What's wrong with VS.NET/2005

Since I won't make it to the summit I guess this is my only chance to be
heard. :)
I haven't used VS2005 that much. I am still using VS2003 at work.

But here is what I have in the little time I spent playing with it:

1. I liked the fact that at VS2003 would switch to the task list at the end
of a build. Wish VS2005 would switch to the error list automatically. And
yes by default I want to see Errors and Warnings.
2. The output window is too cluttered after a build. A little bit of white
space never hurt anyone.
3. One word (maybe two depending on how you look at it) ClassWizard!!! (And
Orcas didn't not make things any better in this department). I loved the one
stop shop of attaching variables to controls and handling messages in VS6.
4. With the current way of going through the Property Window to override
methods, and catch messages, I hate the fact that I have to put the mouse in
specific location in the class implementation (like the Message map) to be
able to access that functionality. At least in 2003 you could do it from
anywhere within that class.
5. VS6.0 had hot key for iterating through the find in file results. The
same way F8 iterates the error list.

You know what I just realized after rereading what I wrote. These are only
complaints that a VC++ developer would have. Lets face it why would a C# guy
need a classwizard. How many C# guys do you know that would complain about
the fact that they have to put the cursor in the class definition to get the
Events, Messages and Overrides to show up.

You guys have heard about Cingular charging TDMA customers an extra $5/month
in order to force them to go in and change their phones to the new GSM
phones, just because they didn't want to keep up with two different
networks. I think Microsoft is doing that to us. They are going to make
VC++ development so tedious and difficult that we would have to abandon it
sooner or later and switch to C#. :)

AliR.

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