FYI: 20 Cool Visual Studio .NET IDE Features

[Philippe FREMY]

> 
> On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:52, Tamas Nagy wrote:
> > http://www.devx.com/codemag/articles/2002/March/VSIDE/VSIDEp.asp
> 

Visual Studio has a so bad editor that a company is selling its own
enhancemnt. Is is called Visual Assist and it just rock. Although I usually
don't like windows program, this editor is just powerful. It knows your
project very well and propose the most intelligent completions I have ever
seen. You never type more than 4 letters before hitting tab. It has very
good syntax highlighting. If you use a '.' instead of a '->', it will just
convert it automatically. It has the cool "go back" button, which is really
useful.

They are just adding the cool stuff that you can find in lot of other
editors: 
- tab windows (ultra-edit, mozilla, opera, ...)
- the configuration of VC++ just sucked, looks like they have improved it.
- the solution thing looks very much like the Forte file manager
- keyword shortcut has been there since long in vi and very probably in
emacs
- folding is fashion these days. It is now in vi and in Idle (python) and in
many other places
- clipboard ring is my favorite emacs feature. I wish vi had it
- incremental search has been there for years in emacs and vi
- "go back" is a cool stuff you can see in visual assist.
- box selection has been in vim for a long time

So what they have done basically is gather some of the good features of the
most powerful IDE and editors around there. The result can only be powerful.
I think they have gone from a middle-class editor to a powerful IDE.

Hopefully, we have some of the features they propose in some of our editors
(vim, emacs, ...). So as soon as they get integrated, KDevelop will rival
:-)

I think Visual Assist will have a hard time to sell their enhancement for
Visual Studio. This the problem when addressing the windows market, you
never know when microsoft is going to kill you!

	regards,

	Philippe


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