Comments on: Why Visual Studio SUCKS!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:59 +0000

They sure do Lisa, read this and this. I wrote this post almost 5 years ago and a lot has changed... I still use Visual Studio every day, allbeit VS2008 now, and although I still have some minor gripes I'm generally pretty happy. Windows 7 however is truely a thing of beauty.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:28 +0000

Give Microsoft a break! They’re awesome and make great products.

By: Aaron's UI Design Blog

Aaron's UI Design Blog — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:25:02 +0000

Reach out and touch someone

I’ve tossed this post into the marketing category, but it’s really anything but. Marketing, to me, implies a deeply impersonal one-to-many relationship. Blogs, coupled with websites like Technorati, give you the ability to manage one-to-one relations…

By: Tim Haines

Tim Haines — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:03:51 +0000

Funny how people who leave unqualified and senseless comments like that always seem to do it anonymously. If he had some valid concerns it would be of much more value to everyone to discuss them openly with integrity. Must have been a competitor firing a badly executed cheap shot

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:02:49 +0000

Care to qualify that comment Cynic? I would be very interested to here your reasoning for why AfterMail are out of date in their approach.

I have to disagree however, with the notion that reaching a 4.0 version of a product in a two year timeframe is at all worrying. I would infact see this as a good thing as it show's the product is growing rapidly in response to an emerging, ever changing and very real need in the marketplace.

And for the record AfterMail are in the 3.5 release cycle NOT 4.0. As such this is a refinement of the 3.0 product, not a full version evolution.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:02:15 +0000

It's time to start *really* worrying about a product when it gets to 4.0 within two years, while still taking an approach that was out of date in 1999!

Bye bye Aftermail, sorry you couldn't catch up in time.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:01:24 +0000

Thanks Scott

Didn't expect to receive feedback from so high up in the food chain! but very much appreciated. I will be sure to check out both the Visual Studio Web Developer 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 products as we will most probably be moving toward .Net 2.0 with the forthcoming 4.0 release of our AfterMail product.

By: Scott Gu

Scott Gu — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:00:09 +0000

Visual Studio 2005 has made big strides in the ASP.NET design experience. It will no longer reformat your HTML when you switch between design and source view (yeah), and its html source editor is really top notch (I believe richer than anything else out there on the market).

The markup generated by default is now XHTML transitional compliant, and the intellisense engine now validates all markup for you dynamically (also as XHTML transitional by default — although you can also change this to xhtml strict and html 4.01).

You can learn more and download the free Visual Web Developer 2005 (which is the express edition of Visual Studio) from this link: http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=7&tabid=46

Hope this helps,

By: Phil Cockfield

Phil Cockfield — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:58:33 +0000

Ouch. I feel your pain. I always set default view to open as code, not design for precisely this reason – but as you say, that doensn't solve the problem where another developer (who hasn't made this setting) opens the file. Grrr