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Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet
Visual Studio 2010, an IDE!
Now, does "IDE" stand for "Integrated Development Environment" or "Idiot's
Development Environment"? Sort of, "made by idiots, for idiots"?
OK, the debugger is presumably still one of the best, although I haven't
checked, I can't see how they could have dared to f*** it up.
But, configuration, help system, editor, sort of everything else. There is some
extreme irony wrt. to the help system, the technical documentation. When you set
out to find on help on something other than an identifier you could, formerly,
(1) google, (2) use the MSDN Library index, and/or (3) use the MSDN Library
hierarchical table of contents. With VS2010 the MS beach engineers (hired as
cheap replacements for software engineers?) removed the index and as default
turned off the table of contents. Leaving people to google. That is, Google.
Argh.
Frustrated,
- Alf
Now, does "IDE" stand for "Integrated Development Environment" or "Idiot's
Development Environment"? Sort of, "made by idiots, for idiots"?
OK, the debugger is presumably still one of the best, although I haven't
checked, I can't see how they could have dared to f*** it up.
But, configuration, help system, editor, sort of everything else. There is some
extreme irony wrt. to the help system, the technical documentation. When you set
out to find on help on something other than an identifier you could, formerly,
(1) google, (2) use the MSDN Library index, and/or (3) use the MSDN Library
hierarchical table of contents. With VS2010 the MS beach engineers (hired as
cheap replacements for software engineers?) removed the index and as default
turned off the table of contents. Leaving people to google. That is, Google.
Argh.
Frustrated,
- Alf