Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

Rory O'Donnell — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:53:41 GMT

Search feature drop down to include current class

So,

"Current Document"

"Current Class (CCurrentClassName)"

"All Open Documents"

"Current Project"

"Current Solution"

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

Rory O'Donnell — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:48:00 GMT

I would be cool if you define background colours for C++/C# class methods. Private methods could have a red hue background, public could be defined as green. etc.

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

Dean — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:08:09 GMT

Part of the hype of VS 11 is that it fixes many performance and stability problems of VS 10. Is there a reason MS doesn't give just the perf. and stability fixes to VS 10 with a SP2?

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

zainnab — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:33:10 GMT

@Jack once the pre-release bits come out I'll look into the T4 situation :)

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

Jack U — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:29:10 GMT

Please make sure that T4 templates are supported as first class citizen in the IDE:

- Make intellisense works correctly with T4 template files

- Make sure that "Transform All Templates" is a standard part of the build (do not require VMSDK to be installed)

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

zainnab — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:23:31 GMT

Don,

Totally agree. I've never been a fan of modal dialogs going back to my VB3 days. I "get" why people think they are needed (especially back then) but users are more interface aware now IMHO.

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

zainnab — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:21:09 GMT

Hey John :)

Right now it is between vNext and VS2010. I'm not sure if there are plans to make it go back further or not. I'll ping the team responsible for ths feature when I do my series and see what the plans are for this feature and share what I can.

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

John K — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:57:40 GMT

How far back does the project round-tripping go? *whispers*Please say vs2003*whispers*

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

Don — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:50:50 GMT

As long as there are fewer/no modal windows, I'll be happy.

re: Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements

zainnab — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:15:21 GMT

JRod / Paul / Chris :)

That's partially true. There are lots of new features in vNext that came directly from our experiences with the extensions BUT there is a ton of new functionality that didn't come from extensions. A good example, just off the top of my head, is the Preview Tab experience which is a great new idea for working with code windows in the tab well. With that said, I personally have to agree with Chris. Even if 100% of the new features came from extensions that, in my opinion, would be a good thing. It means we have field tested the features and distilled them down to the ones that (a) work and (b) people have indicated they want. I like the idea that 1,007,259 people have "voted" by downloading the Productivity Power Pack and given us feedback to improve features in the next version of Visual Studio.