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.
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> 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
>

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