Visual Studio 11 Beta - Feedback
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The installer need re-boot of Windows. Why?
I remember a video (GoingNative?) where someone from Microsoft
said there were no reason for installers to need any reboot anymore
since at least Windows Vista or 7.
I've choosen the C++ setup. The fact that it's "like VS6" makes me hesitate to me but oh well...
The interface is clearly simpler, it helps.
I don't feel like someone shoot at me because it's not a chat box.
I missed only the build icons in the toolbar. Most of the time I use only shortcuts
or right click on the target project to get it built, so I guess it's fine if
it's not available by default.
I create a simple C++ project to get a feel to the code display.
Issue #1: scroll bars don't work with my touchpad (I'm on a laptop).
I can move them with the mouse cursor, but my touchpad also have special sensors
on the bottom and right borders to allow scrolling the current window.
I did click inside the code window and tried to use the scrolling directly from
the touchpad but it does nothing.
I like the new syntax highlitghts but it just lacks ONE color: functions.
Visual Assist X already provide such colorization, making functions names appear in
brown. I find it very very useful because it sometimes clarify what you're manipulating,
like in:
auto result = Computation( some_data ); // function or constructor?
It's not important from the language point of view, but for the reader it might make him
see a potential problem faster if he understand that Computation is a class, and spot
a potential bug in the following lines.
Ok now I'm loading my open source project.
I generate the VS11 project files with CMake but it says it don't know the compiler.
In fact it's Qt that is getting in the way. I'll not be able to link but I want to try compilation.
I generate the VS10 project files and will try a conversion in VS11.
The conversion goes well and is very fast.
Compilation seems fast, I'm surprised, but I should make a clear comparison before saying it's always fast.
I didn't measure anything.
I got no error.
I find the graphic theme a bit too flat. The grey seem too close to the white so it makes the whole
a bit hard on eyes. I never liked black background in other IDEs but I should try the dark theme,
see if it's easier on the eyes (maybe I'm getting old...)
Dark theme syntax colors looks much more visible! I feel like it's far better. But I should try it
for more than a few minutes.
I can't link this project because I don't have VC11 binaries for Qt. I'll try with another project
I'm starting that is, for now, only 14 little C++ inter-dependant projects that have minimal code.
It compiles in VS10 but don't link yet. I just want to see how it feels with this one.
I generated my new project's VS11 files with CMake without any problem.
I closed the solution and attempted to open the other projec'ts solution, but it crashed.
While rebooting I see Bartoz Milewski on Twitter saying:
"VS11 beta: Can't pass args by move to a thread? std::thread th(&thFunMove, std::move(prms));"
Really?
Back to VS11, everything seem to work fine.
No more to add so far.
OMG Project properties dialog didn't change a bit? That's the less readable interface in the whole tool! D:
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