[Issue 18639] New: VisualD - First 5 minutes - Improve list of project wizards, propritise MSBuild projects
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Tue Mar 20 18:55:20 UTC 2018
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18639
Issue ID: 18639
Summary: VisualD - First 5 minutes - Improve list of project
wizards, propritise MSBuild projects
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: x86
OS: Windows
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: visuald
Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
Reporter: turkeyman at gmail.com
I have a colleague who just tried out D for the first time.
He's a gamedev, so coming from VS, and expects a very high bar for quality.
He offered me some feedback which I think it worth passing on.
His first-5-minutes experience was not great, and he says he would have
dismissed it and not continued investigating if not for my insistence.
So, a few suggested changes:
MSBuild seems to be working well. The project wizards need to promote it as the
default if we think it's ready?
New Project -> D -> [list is long]
All the items in the list look reasonable to someone who doesn't know anything
about VisualD, and it's not clear that they are distinct project types.
I think most VS users will want VC++/D project, and it should probably be that
there is a complete set of D MSBuild wizards, ie, windowed/console app, static
lib, dll.
The names need to be clearer in making a distinction between the MSBuild
project, and the old VisualD custom project, and use language to promote
MSBuild as the obvious choice?
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