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

[Ben C. <be...@gu...>]

On Friday, June 13, 2003, 1:44:24 PM, someone wrote:

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

 ...and a "few" more...

1) Various source-control operations cause the Solution Explorer to
spend several minutes jumping randomly between files in the project
(apparently opening/closing/saving them or whatever) if you have many
windows open.

2) In fact, can the Solution Explorer jump-to-current-file behaviour
be turned off? It's occasionally useful, but far more often just
annoying.

3) Editing multiple project properties at once is buggy, as is editing
multiple configurations - frequently the properties window
mysteriously looses changes, vanishes altogether, displays "there are
no properties for the selected item", or, in extreme cases, simply
crashes VS.net entirely. I've had to edit the .vcproj files by hand a
couple of times to make changes thanks to this...

4) If you do a "get latest" from within Sourcesafe recursively, and
several .vcproj files are updates, then VS.net only notices the first
one that's changed, and blindly goes on using the others without
reloading them.

5) "Get latest" from within the IDE is useless because it seems to
operate on the *current* .vcproj file, not the one in Sourcesafe (or a
merge of the two), and hence misses newly-added files.

6) Custom build step dependencies are crippled - it seems impossible to
set up a configuration that allows (for example) compiling a vertex
shader and then "incbin-ing" the resulting bytecode into a header file
for inclusion in the project in such a way that everything rebuilds
correctly without resorting to multiple rebuilds and/or abuse of
"touch" on things.

7) Can we have an option to turn off the task list? It's just a
pointless recap of the information in the build window (usually with
the important bits missing), and more often than not you spot the
error in the build window, go to read it and... blam, you're looking
at the task list instead because the build just aborted.

8) An option to suppress the comments dialog when checking out files
would be good. We never use them, but I've lost track of how many
checkouts now have comments along the lines of "nt blah=0;" because
we're all used to just hitting ENTER to clear the "check out now?"
prompt...

9) I haven't tried too hard to make this work so it could just be a
misplaced setting, but Japanese SJIS text support in the editor is
broken (it worked in VC6).

10) And yes, yet another plea for a one-step "show settings for
current project and build" button. And, if possible, a convenient
way to change the "Debug->Command line parameters" setting for the
current project (in fact, the option to have that as a edit box on the
toolbar would be best).

 ...er.. I think I'll stop now ^-^;

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