Ditto on the comments regarding the quality of Visual Studio 2005. Although, I do agree it's the first Visual Studio .NET approaches being functional.
I feel there many fundamental defects and fundamental design flaws (some contrary to Microsoft's Patterns and Practices that *it* pushes) in Visual Studio that need to be addressed. There's many designer issues logged on http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio/feedback. Some are feature requests (like support for forms/controls using generics or abstract base classes) but hardly any seem to be of any importance to anyone other than the person that logged it. If the issues that have been raised in this thread are important to anyone reading it they should make their voice heard on the feedback site by voting for these issues. Searching for the words "forms designer" shows a very large list of issues (some suggestions, some bugs) but the only issues that have more than a couple of votes seem only to be feature requests (again, abstracts and generics in the forms designer). From Microsoft's point of view the community is saying most of the issues described in this thread aren't important. The issue of performance toggling between code/design views is a big issue that the Visual Studio team is working on--it's one of the only bugs that has garnered a lot of votes (49 at last count). If you find or know of an issue on Connect you feel is important (or was raised in this thread), post the URL here (or the WinForms list if it's a WinForms designer issue) with a description so everyone else can vote on it--if it's important to them. It's clear that Microsoft is working on the bugs that the community has said are important on Connect. After that, they're working on the bugs they feel have a priority. Discussing bugs in Visual Studio on these lists may get you advice on a workaround and allow you to blow off steam; but it won't get the bug fixed. =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
