OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Robert Fraser
<fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> The IDE is excellent.  The docs are reasonable once you figure out how
>> they are laid out.
>
> I really don't get what's so great about VS. After using JDT (Eclipse Java),
> I find Vs kind of lacking. IMO, MS invests a lot of resources in areas to
> sell VS to companies rather than programmers. Automatic checking against UML
> models... okay, that's a cool feature, but I'd rather it could highlight my
> semantic errors without my having to click "build" or have more than 5
> refactorings or have quick-fixes for errors, or...

It's a lot nicer with Visual Assist or (from what I hear) Resharper.
But it is sad that you have to pay even more money to make the thing
you paid so much money for in the first place more usable.
Considering things like Eclipse are free.

--bb