The biggest file in one of the 20-year developed repository that I have seen before contains 13189 rows and its history begins not a long ago, in 2006 :-( Only nine files in the repository are longer than 10000 rows, but there are 65 (sixty-five!) files longer than 5000 rows. Try to live with this without regrets and remorse :-)

Hello, Let me try to explain my words. When I say "common controls" I mean edit/combo/listbox/list/tree controls with event driven data flow. When I say common controls I mean Windows 3.X and its descendants. Windows Forms, like Delphi previously, use this model with a few extensions. When I say drugs addicted design I mean a new approach when framework developers are too lazy or to dump to implement all the common controls and pass this work to the application developers. My favorite example - Android GUI. WPF and its next approach called UWP are another examples of this kind of technology.

Microsoft Visual Studio comes a long way from Visual C++ 1.5 until Visual Studio 2022. There were many milestones on the way. The most important for me were jump to win32 (from win16) and from win32 to win64. Since VS.NET appeared, I don't have any illusions about the future of this IDE. I was always surprised with Microsoft's perseverance with maintaining this piece of ... technology. Other toolset rose and fell, but this IDE remains ... alive. The most productive Microsoft's strategy (try to create something great and kill anyone who has better alternative if the results were not good) works even nowadays. I think the most risky part of the Windows' development is not and IDE or tools, but the restricted SDK that replaces the current. The old as a mammoth common controls GUI model is changing to a kind of drug addicted. Moreover, Microsoft is not leading this rift. I'm afraid of the next possible Microsoft's step :-(