[GD-Windows] VS.net rants, was Re: VC++ lag

[Enno R. <en...@de...>]

I can add a few cents here, too...

[1] Intellisense: I'm sick of having to generate .ncb files, and since VC6, 
I've been using Visual Assist - a great productivity tool, for $79.

[2] Keyboard shortcuts: I was so used to doing a "Find in Files" in VC6 and 
then stepping through the reuslts with F4. Why did they have to take that 
away? Now I *have* to use the mouse to step through search results, because 
F4 is exclusive to the compiler output list.

[3] Immediate Evaluation: The Shift-F9 evaluation dialog only opens when I'm 
debugging now. I used it all the time during programming, as a calculator 
that understood C syntax. It was nice. Now it's no longer usable.

[4] .sln files: I'm just upgrading from VS.net to VS.net 2003, and they've 
changed the format again, and they're incompatible - not upwards, not 
downwards! Which means that if you're publishing a library with source, you 
now have to have two sets of .sln files as well as dsw files included. Yikes.

On the positive side, dependency checking seems to be much faster, and I 
like that it opens a lot faster than VC6 for a single .cpp file.

Enno