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That is why they have provided options to customize the IDE. You can have
1) your own custom templates, projects and solutions
2) Your own wizards
3) Your own macros, pre-compilers
4) Your own providers (login provider, site map provider etc.)
5) custom templates.
Designing these things were very difficult in earlier versions, but is pretty easy now. I could really improve my coding speeds atleast by 40%.
I don't think, there is any IDE which allows this much customisation (even for other languages like Java, coldfusion or PHP).
There is no meaning in adding new and new features to the IDE. But, what is required is to have an SDK using which we can create our own code generators, templates etc. that suits the nature of projects we are doing. VS (and only VS ?) is doing this right now and I am very much satisfied with it.
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Madhu Kampurath wrote: That is why they have provided options to customize the IDE
Well, I don't really have the time or motivation to write all my own custom templates, wizards, macros, providers, etc.
Of course, that'll also mean that those that do have the time and motivation will be writing (and possibly selling) some interesting things.
In the final analysis though, I pretty much just want a decent code editor, a decent compiler, and a decent debugger. They shouldn't crash, they shouldn't hose up the solution tree, and it should be easy to preserve configuration settings with source control. All the rest is fluff and should be add-ins, rather than six different product lines with selected features pigeonholed into someone's concept of what a team, tester, db person, developer, etc. is.
Is that too much to ask for? It seems so.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I pretty much just want a decent code editor, a decent compiler, and a decent debugger
Amen. Except the compiler bit.
regards,
Paul Watson
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Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Isn't why you pay serious bucks for an IDE so that THEY make it for you, not that they give you another framework for you to spend months customising before you can get actual, paying work done?
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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LOL. And I'd think there is enough edition of Visual Studio already. You want more? Visual Studio 2009 Professional for Developers Internet Store Developer Edition?? 
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I am paying for the framework (with which I can customise VS) I got.
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Same here, none of the above. I'm still trying to think of any IDE improvements that would affect C++ dev. New common controls in the resource editor perhaps, but the resource editor itself is awful and I try not to use it to begin with.
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Phil.Benson wrote: Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
That's awesome sig material!!! LOL 
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A very old one, I stole it from someone else, somewhere a while back...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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