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# willdean said on December 2, 2008 5:58 PM:

Fantastic!  I nearly fell off my chair when I heard you'd written the indexer for the new help yourself.  I have been dying to do that job myself for about about 5 years - I am currently reduced to desperate sobbing every time I hit F1 while I have Filemon running.

Another great interview.  It's so reassuring to feel that there is a proper developer on our side inside VS.  No offence to Soma, but every time he writes about Popfly I wonder if he's on the same planet as the rest of us.

# Keith Patrick said on December 3, 2008 6:19 PM:

I cannot emphasize enough how much I applaud the decision to build VS on top of WPF (and fix any performance issues that creep up as a result).  I may be overly optimistics, but I do dream of one day having a working "Cancel Build" button in the IDE (yeah, I know WPF doesn't magically fix threading, but VS just feels like it's got sedimentary layers of event handling code strewn throughout, and WPF does threading so cleanly). BTW: I feel the same way about explorer.exe...it just behaves less and less consistently over the years.

I was a bit disheartened to hear there likely be no ribbon, though. While the context menu stuff is great, it's not mutually exclusive to the ribbon, and the large-scale toolbar shifting/reorg that goes on whenever I switch documents or go into debug mode causes my head to swim some mornings/evenings (I lose the build/rebuild toolbar a LOT...that little sucker covers more ground than I do in a given day)

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