Long Live Visual Studio
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BryanFazekas wrote:
There's no marketing value in fixing problems that should have been fixed long ago, but there is in trumpeting "new features".
I'm not entirely disagreeing - VS, despite its warts and all, is still the best at what it does. But imagine the amount of goodwill they'd get if only a group of people were assigned the menial task of fixing known issues.
dandy72 wrote:
But imagine the amount of goodwill they'd get if only a group of people were assigned the menial task of fixing known issues.
You're preaching to the choir ... I've been on a few projects where similar decisions were made ... didn't understand it then, don't understand it now.
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A few days ago, Code Witch expressed a rather low opinion of the Eclipse IDE. And someone commented that they think Visual Studio is very good. Well I can say that I'm liking Visual Studio because I just moved a file from one folder to another by dragging it, and upon dropping the file, it asked me if I wanted it to adjust the namespaces for the classes inside the file! Nothing could have been more appropriate or helpful at the time. Viva La Visual Studio!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I started with a Apple /// and basic not sure I had a IDE Moved to Microsoft and obtained a copy of Visual Basic 6 Professional new in the box for $50.00 all I knew was that was a great price So when support went away for VB 6 I wanted to write for Windows with JavaFX Only two IDE's were NetBeans and Eclipse. Had two computers so Eclipse on one and NetBeans on the other. Learning curve with Eclipse was steep compared to NetBeans JavaFX was abandoned by a company I despise Oracle Moved on to Visual Studio 2019 what a joy other than all the junk it puts in my Temp folder it has YES been a joy to use. Multiple platform support FREE on my OLD OS Windows 7 64bit
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dandy72 wrote:
VS has existed for a few decades now, you'd hope it would be pretty good by now.
I like VS. Better than other IDEs that I have tried. But VI has existed since 1970. I keep hoping but it remains miserable.
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A few days ago, Code Witch expressed a rather low opinion of the Eclipse IDE. And someone commented that they think Visual Studio is very good. Well I can say that I'm liking Visual Studio because I just moved a file from one folder to another by dragging it, and upon dropping the file, it asked me if I wanted it to adjust the namespaces for the classes inside the file! Nothing could have been more appropriate or helpful at the time. Viva La Visual Studio!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I agree 100%. I have used the MS development IDE since they introduced it in Visual Basic in 1991, then forward into Visual Studio for .NET around 2000. The main thing VS needs is a visual designer functionally on par with the existing one for WinForms (which dates back to VB in the 90s and updated well over the years) to bring that same rapid application development (i.e. drag and drop UI building) to MAUI, WinUI3, and Blazor. Components like "Hot Reload" don't even come close to improving the productivity and quality of the UI like a visual designer does. Without visual designers, just how "Visual" is Visual Studio?
