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  • J Jim Crafton

    Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

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    Frosstoise
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    How about fixing some of the more heinous bugs: - A linker that doesn't spontaneously die, - A C++ intellisense implementation that works for more than 1/2 an hour at a time before simply stopping. - A configuration manager that in some way performs the tasks expected of it, instead of randomly turning project builds on and off when modified. - The elimination of spontaneous UI lockups that can have DevStudio go off into la la land for a minute at a time - A debugger that doesn't treat Step Over and Run 20% of the time (this one is brutally annoying.) - A fix for the new VSMDI on random operations bug when using TFS. - Less depenence on the .sln files, so that multi-person teams aren't constantly merging (read: redoing) changes. These issues are pushing me ever-closer to looking for a new IDE home. Even if they weren't as feature rich, or as integrated as Visual Studio, at least they wouldn't tease me with 1/2 implemented niceties, and constant performance hiccups (I know, threading and timing out network calls are hard to deal with. I don't care. I want my text editors snappy!)

    Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.

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    • J Jim Crafton

      Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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      Brian W King
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      Perhaps you will finally have to start on an upgrade track for your Commodore64. Get a life! My God can't you find something real to complain about? With the speed of machines doubling, easily, every year. I don't see adding WPF as an issue. Go back to frick'n Notepad if that's what you want. I don't see any reason to keep VS in the GUI stone ages because some whiney a$$ed bunch of coders cried about their five year old machine slowing down. Go get a different job then.

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      • P PIEBALDconsult

        I don't like shiny. I like medium grey, menues, and nice sharp pointy corners.

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        yassir hannoun
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        +1 wpf apps take a little bit longer to load !

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        • R realJSOP

          Great. You need a DX12-compatible video card with a billion fracking shaders and pixel pipelines to get the File Open dialog to display. Just what we need...

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          yassir hannoun
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          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          Great. You need a DX12-compatible video card with a billion fracking shaders and pixel pipelines to get the File Open dialog to display. Just what we need...

          so we will stick to vs2008 ! ah by they way they already use wpf with that entity framework thing !

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          • S Stuart Dootson

            Jim Crafton wrote:

            Anyhow, it will be interesting to see how this turns out. Personally I'm dubious about this, but we'll see.

            You could always try it for yourself[^].

            Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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            Jim Crafton
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            Too late: "After January 1 2009, the Visual Studio software on the Virtual PC will expire." :( Plus I don't feel like downloading the equivalent of 11 CD's just to get a feel for VS. Which brings to mind another gripe: someone at MS really needs to get a grip on the size of some of these programs. It's an IDE for craps's sake, not a friggin OS.

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            • F Frosstoise

              How about fixing some of the more heinous bugs: - A linker that doesn't spontaneously die, - A C++ intellisense implementation that works for more than 1/2 an hour at a time before simply stopping. - A configuration manager that in some way performs the tasks expected of it, instead of randomly turning project builds on and off when modified. - The elimination of spontaneous UI lockups that can have DevStudio go off into la la land for a minute at a time - A debugger that doesn't treat Step Over and Run 20% of the time (this one is brutally annoying.) - A fix for the new VSMDI on random operations bug when using TFS. - Less depenence on the .sln files, so that multi-person teams aren't constantly merging (read: redoing) changes. These issues are pushing me ever-closer to looking for a new IDE home. Even if they weren't as feature rich, or as integrated as Visual Studio, at least they wouldn't tease me with 1/2 implemented niceties, and constant performance hiccups (I know, threading and timing out network calls are hard to deal with. I don't care. I want my text editors snappy!)

              Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.

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              Jim Crafton
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              Frosstoise wrote:

              for a new IDE home

              Good luck. Practically speaking there aren't really any more out there.

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              • J Jim Crafton

                Too late: "After January 1 2009, the Visual Studio software on the Virtual PC will expire." :( Plus I don't feel like downloading the equivalent of 11 CD's just to get a feel for VS. Which brings to mind another gripe: someone at MS really needs to get a grip on the size of some of these programs. It's an IDE for craps's sake, not a friggin OS.

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                Stuart Dootson
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                Jim Crafton wrote:

                After January 1 2009, the Visual Studio software on the Virtual PC will expire

                MS tell you how to keep using it after then - I'm guessing that if they tell you how to that must be OK :-)

                Jim Crafton wrote:

                It's an IDE for craps's sake, not a friggin OS

                Welll - the download is actually an OS as well - it's an install of VS2010 on Windows Server 2008. Doesn't include MSDN docs, mind, so it could have been even bigger :-)

                Jim Crafton wrote:

                I don't feel like downloading the equivalent of 11 CD's just to get a feel for VS

                That I can understand - it's less of a pain if it's not your own personal bandwidth.

                Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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                • L Lost User

                  I hadn't, but I still think it's way over the top. If you make a 1MB file filled with regions, it's your own fault that it's slow to scroll through. They could upgrade their algorithms without switching to WPF. It's not as if WPF is doing some kind of magic that they couldn't do normally. edit: the extensibility is nice though.

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                  Judah Gabriel Himango
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                  While a developer may be to blame for a many-thousands-of-lines file, we must admit this happens very often. Every real C++, C#, and Java project I've been on, there's been several files with, say 4-8 thousand lines. Kills the editor. It's true they could just rewrite the GDI one with better algorithms this time around. But given the WPF editor will be far more modular and extensible than a rewritten GDI editor, I'm happy about this move.

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    Well it already uses Windows Forms - so, I don't think WPF would make it slower in particular. In fact it may get faster with a good fast video card.

                    Regards, Nish


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                    My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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                    ely_bob
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                    Assuming everyone wants to upgrade their hardware just to run their new "improved" software. :wtf:

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                    • J Jim Crafton

                      Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

                      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                      cesar_boucas
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                      Nice!!! Can't wait to see it!! And please, put some 3D on it!

                      "Go for it!"

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                      • J Jim Crafton

                        Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

                        ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                        akidan
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                        ...that the only thing WPF has to offer is glitz, glamor and flashy animations? Almost all the replies to this post has sounded like "augh, WPF, I don't need shaders in my text!" *sigh* I think part of it is Microsoft's fault, for positioning WinForms as the 'business workhorse' and WPF as the 'sparkly rich experience' thing.

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                        • J Jim Crafton

                          Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

                          ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                          Todd Smith
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                          Did you watch the video?

                          Todd Smith

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                          • J Jim Crafton

                            Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

                            ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                            radioman lt
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                            blured land comming soon :laugh:

                            peace & serenity

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                            • N Nish Nishant

                              Well it already uses Windows Forms - so, I don't think WPF would make it slower in particular. In fact it may get faster with a good fast video card.

                              Regards, Nish


                              Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                              My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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                              Reza Jahanbakhshi 0
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                              AFAIK a little Windows Forms used in VS 2008. For example property editor is using Windows Forms but most of the UI controls are native controls with COM wrappers.

                              There is no knowledge, That is not power.

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                              • J Jim Crafton

                                Can anyone confirm or deny this atrocity? http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2008/12/02/visual-studio-today-tomorrow-and-beyond.aspx#9172277[^] Are they really planning on build an IDE with WPF? Am I missing something? Is this just old news that I've missed out on? //edit On further googling, it looks like this is a definite. Seems initially like not such a good idea, but I'll be curious to see how well it works.

                                ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                                clearbrian1
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                                well it could use the 3d features of WPF. How about all your threads laid out in 3d space you debugging trace would be flying through code :)

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