What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway? (aka Part 2 of the Yardstick saga)

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Justin Etheredge — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:35:05 GMT

Well, I think that visualizers in Visual Studio 2005 is a decent step in the direction of better understanding code. It will allow you to walk through a piece of executing code and better understand what is going on in the objects that you are working with (provided you take the time to implement this on your objects). I think that one feature that visual studio has been sorely lacking for years is source outlining. Just being able to have the source formatted for you isn't enough. Products such as code rush provide a good example of how this could be implemented. Simply having colored lines or other visual cues that let you match up loops, methods, or other structures would help a lot in allowing you to glance at a piece of code and decipher its structure. Another feature that would also be interesting would be to allow a developer to hover over a method call, and if it is small enough, display this new method in a tool tip or something. This way, when I am going through a method and it calls out to another method, I can get a quick view of what the other method looks like without having to switch source files. This could also work excellently during debugging when I need to decide whether or not I need to step into a method. On larger methods, just being able to see the first 10 lines or so would be greatly useful.

re: What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway? (aka Part 2 of the Yardstick saga)

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What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway? (aka Part 2 of the Yardstick saga)

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