By rot for example I mean not supporting WTL from within the tools development group. The only WTL tool that integrated into VS was developed by some guy in Eas

By rot for example I mean not supporting WTL from within the tools development group. The only WTL tool that integrated into VS was developed by some guy in Eastern Europe. There was nothing from MS. As another example the largest software company in the world making tens of billions of dollars a year and they license a cheesy MFC widget library (in VS 2008 SP2?) instead of having internal resources to develop their own. I agree that VS is the best development tool but the MS development tool group supported C++ poorly from 1998 to 2010. It appears that it is changing but it has appeared that way several times but always it turned into a one shot deal with no follow through.