VS 2010 has a visualis(z)er that does similar things. A bit like reflector on steroids.
-- noonie On 3 February 2010 10:00, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Beyond Visual Studio ... a few weeks ago I was watching a webcast on a > subject I’ve forgotten, but there were some research projects being demoed. > One of them was so stunning it was like it came back in the TARDIS by > accident ... it was a graph of connected editing windows full of code that > deep zoomed. The windows and connections (Visio flowchart style) could be > moved around and layered, stacked and unwound, but the important thing is > that the visual structure represented the code structure. As you navigated > in the code, the windows animated and guided you around. > > > > I’ve dreamt of a code analyser/editor like this for years, but the > difficultly level of creating a usable product like that puts it out of the > reach of all but the most gifted or dedicated individuals. I’m glad that > Microsoft has their top boffins working on it. > > > > I don’t know what this thing was called. Has any else seen it and know what > it is? How long before we see this hit the public? > > > > I’m looking forward to the next far leap beyond of the traditional editor > window with monospaced type that has barely changed since the 1970s (except > for nice colours and intellisense, which are pretty good I must admit). > VS2010 is supposed to have a WPF based editor, but I haven’t seen it do > anything special in the beta release. > > > > Greg >
