I've also done a blog post decoding the grey into more finite principles, ie "i dont like grey.." isn't enough, so i've made a feeble attempt to decode the problem with flat grey vs depth based grey.
Decoding the use of grey in Visual Studio vNext http://www.riagenic.com/archives/858 --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David Kean <[email protected]>wrote: > Starting in VS 11, you can now round-trip VS 2010 projects/solutions > without modification in most cases.**** > > ** ** > > Can you clarify on the “not safe” part? Is there anything in particular > you are worried about? In 2008/2010, in most cases, all that’s really > changing underneath is a version number stored in the project/solution. > Everything else will build normally.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:50 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM, David Kean <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Thanks for the feedback. On the three different versions things, why are > you using three? What you building that still requires 2005/2008?**** > > ** ** > > Ok, we do builds for products that were released when 2005 (and 2008) were > current, and it's not convenient, or safe, to update them to 2010 (or 2012) > - we're only doing maintenance fixes on them. It'd be nice if you could > open a 2005 project with 2012, without converting it to 2012 format, and > then compile it with the 2005 version of CL. That would give you the 2012 > UI, and not alter the project/solution/binary more than necessary. **** > > ** ** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 PM**** > > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?**** > > **** > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, David Kean <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > > > We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > I agree, somewhat, about the colour, but feel you've gone too far towards > monochrome. And if you make me learn a new set of damned icons, I won't > use the bloody thing. This is one thing I wish Microsoft would stop > tinkering with. Icons, menu layouts, dialog layouts. Some of us don't > move on completely from one version to another, but use 3 different > versions of VS. Do you have any idea how painful this is? **** > > [image: Description: Pictographic icons from VS 2010 on the top row with > the equivalent VS 11 glyphs on the bottom row] **** > > **** > > Take the comment/uncomment icons. WTF are they meant to represent?**** > > **** > > </rant>**** > > **** > > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Meski**** > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv**** > > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills**** > > ** ** >
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