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The last great IDE Microsoft put out was Visual Studio 6: the C++ compiler optimizations were amazing, the UI was zenful (you had to know your hotkeys for thin

The last great IDE Microsoft put out was Visual Studio 6: the C++ compiler optimizations were amazing, the UI was zenful (you had to know your hotkeys for things, gasp!) The darn thing just did everything, and I enjoyed working with it. Versions after 6 had more and more panels and property sheets started cluttering up the works and crowding out my editor, and there were lots more things begging for the mouse rather than the keyboard. Seems like their tools philosophy changed after Y2K. It was writing on the wall for me to move on when Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab in VS stopped working like a stack of MRU editors because they started adding visual/clickable tabs at the top for all the open editors. "It would be confusing", said the marketdroid, "to have Ctrl+Tab jump all over the place between these tabs here - better to just cycle left and right through the editor tabs in the order they are displayed." Sigh.

ragesh 13y ago
Wow. In which version of VS did they do that? I never really noticed it. Ctrl-Tab was always MRU in my experience.
kryten 13y ago
Agree with that so much it's unreal. I actually used vc++6 until about 2005. Eclipse kind of took over for C/C++ after that.
skrebbel 13y ago
Ctrl+tab is MRU in VS2012. Or at least it is on all my machines and I never had to configure anything there. Also, you're complaining about very superficial stuff. My VS layout has a file explorer on the left, big code view on the right, current errors and warnings / console output on the bottom, and that's it. How is that bloated? It's basically what sublime text looks like, but then whiter. It literally takes 2 minutes to hide all toolbars and install the 'Hide main menu' extension, what's the problem?