MS Dev Tooling
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Me too! I have VS6, VS2015, and VS2017 going. VS2017 loads and runs my solution just fine and it loads faster. But whatever happened to the "Bookmarks" feature? Is it there and I just don't know how to activate it? If you know, please reply/comment.
Member of the Evil Empire since 1976.
I too run many versions of IDE: VC6, VS 2013, and VS 2017. Would love to eliminate VC6. It is tricky to install under Windows 10 (See: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1191047/Install-Visual-Studio-on-Windows). The VC6 debugger is also an issue under Windows-10. Unfortunately, the project won't compile on newer versions. It includes a Microsoft module that is now obsolete and unsupported.
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Me too! I have VS6, VS2015, and VS2017 going. VS2017 loads and runs my solution just fine and it loads faster. But whatever happened to the "Bookmarks" feature? Is it there and I just don't know how to activate it? If you know, please reply/comment.
Member of the Evil Empire since 1976.
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Here here!! While I generally agree VS is a top tier IDE. I want a moment on the soapbox.. How about bring back temporary projects. I got very spoiled with that feature and then they dropped it in vs2019. They claimed it was dropped because useage metrics deemed no one used it.. yet it immediately got feedback. I called out what usage metrics they could have possibly gotten to make this determination (unless VS phones home your every click??). What probably happened is temp projects doesnt fit the way they implemented the new start screen, which I find actually a bit clunky to spin up new projects than the old way. It was handy to spin up a console app, tinker with a snippet of code, and discard. No neee to save to a Temp folder and remember to clear it out. For that I still open VS2017 instances. I'll step off the soapbox now before I go on about their recent trend extensions.
I remember being in a launch presentation when temporary projects was touted as the big new thing that was going to be really useful, and yeah, it was. So why drop it? I just recently threw out the set of manuals that came with Visual C++ 1.0 that I bought with my own money. Those were the days
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I just checked both VS 2017 and 2019 and the Bookmarks are there under the Edit menu. I've never used them, but after understanding what they are, probably will in the future. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Yes. I googled them for 2017 and found out they were moved from where the had been from VS6 thru VS2015, on the bar under the menu to the edit dropdown on the menu. :-O :-O :mad: I have been trying it out but I am not sure if I like it there or not. Still it is immensely useful.
Old Geezer
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I just checked both VS 2017 and 2019 and the Bookmarks are there under the Edit menu. I've never used them, but after understanding what they are, probably will in the future. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Visual Studio bookmarks are very useful, I use em every day. Whenever I know I'm going to have to do some exploring to figure out what to do, I set a bookmark on the code I'm working on, and no matter how far I have to go I can get back by hitting F2 .
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Bash MS all you like, but their development tooling is much easier easier to use than most. Recently I wanted to test something in Java, so I downloaded a JDK and Eclipse. It's a lot less intuitive to use (for a beginner?) than Visual Studio and I didn't didn't it easy to use at all. I finally tried IntelliJ - it's better and I got the code sample working. Still not on the same level as VS. MS has made the development experience easier than most other companies imo.
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Bash MS all you like, but their development tooling is much easier easier to use than most. Recently I wanted to test something in Java, so I downloaded a JDK and Eclipse. It's a lot less intuitive to use (for a beginner?) than Visual Studio and I didn't didn't it easy to use at all. I finally tried IntelliJ - it's better and I got the code sample working. Still not on the same level as VS. MS has made the development experience easier than most other companies imo.
Eh, it is all what you get used to... I personally find Eclipse to work the best for me and flounder around in Visual Studio.
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Eh, it is all what you get used to... I personally find Eclipse to work the best for me and flounder around in Visual Studio.