By being on steroids do you mean it has gross side-effects? :p
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, noonie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
