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  • Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:17 PMGeorge P Boutwell Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    The core things I have asked for everytime I have visited with ANY VC++ representative I could talk to at numerous conferences I have been to.

    1) Refactoring - This is such an important and valuable tool to any existing code base it is extremely disappointing to me that Microsoft has not to this point been able to add this to their IDE.  Coupled with the IDE's build-in Testing this would be a wonderful way to boost software quality and take it to a new level, as of yet this is an area where C++ continues to lag behind every other language Visual Studio supports, include DB languages now!!!

    2) Visual Applications - The Windows Forms Design is bad.  We literally suffer numerous production drops daily when we port applications from our prior environment to Visual Studio.  It was my hope and impression that WPF and Expression would be a wonderful way for Microsoft to deal with this.  Imagine my disappointment when WPF is released in 2008's IDE for C# and VB but C++ users are told to use C# and interface with it for this functionality and to wait until the next release of the IDE.  It appears that even now we will not be getting this in even this release of the IDE.
    George P Botuwell, Programmer