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At one time I loved Visual Studio enough to write Visual Studio Hacks for O'reilly, but I have finally had enough. The thing is bloated and continues to get mor
by javery 17y ago
At one time I loved Visual Studio enough to write Visual Studio Hacks for O'reilly, but I have finally had enough. The thing is bloated and continues to get more and more bloated. I have turned off as much as I can and removed all the toolbars, but it's still their in the slowness, lockups, and occasional errors. (and esoteric rules like running in admin mode when using certain projects types, etc)
After using TextMate for Ruby/Rails/Erlang projects I see that you don't need a bloated IDE to write code, I think the next step for me is Emacs (and I am looking at using MonoDevelop for future C# work).
- bugs 17y agoIf you decide to go to emacs from textmate this might help with somewhat similar functionality (regarding completion) http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
- 9oliYQjP 17y agoI generally agree but I think it's really a shame because Microsoft has a great debugger and I love IntelliSense (the damn thing even works with javascript). When working with Windows projects, I generally put up with the bloat because of these two features. If I could get as good a debugger and Intellisense without the bloat, I would. I never use the wizards and all that crap that comes with the IDE.
- javery 17y agoI agree the debugger is good, I have found myself using it less and less though.. especially when I write tests. Intellisense can be useful, I turn it off by default but when I do need to use it I admit it is nice.
- hello_moto 17y agoTime to write another book for O'reilly? "Visual Studio 2010 Annoyances".