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.