Visual D needs to support VS better

[Profile Anaysis via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 08:24:37 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
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> On 23.01.2017 23:23, Profile Anaysis wrote:
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> I never use it myself when working in C++, but I agree, it 
> would be nice to have. At first glance there seems to be little 
> support to implement it easily, though. The Code Definition 
> window works, though.
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> The current implementation is very experimental. Never had the 
> time to improve it though. Refactoring tools are pretty nasty 
> because D is not a simple language...
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But it shouldn't be hard to return something. I'd rather have 
invalid results than no results at all. A simple file search 
would do. If it returned entries that were in comments, I 
wouldn't mind.


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> The debugging experience very much relies on the debug info 
> emitted by the compiler. Unfortunately this is a rather 
> neglected part of the compiler as the main developers prefer 
> printf debugging.
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> There should be some improvements with the recent beta and the 
> latest dmd release. If you have reproducible issues, please 
> file them here: https://issues.dlang.org/

The 0.44b2 didn't help(or made things worse).