Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

[Tony McGee]

Seconded - we still support a really old Windows Mobile apps that requires Visual Studio 2003, database projects that need to support both SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008 incompatible versions of RDL and report viewer controls, and some ASP.NET 4/.NET 4 web projects that require VS2010. I reckon our case of having to install up to four different versions of Visual Studio side by side is not that uncommon. It's maddening having to fight against the VS project upgrade wizard that always seems to be waiting in ambush. On 24/02/2012 6:24 PM, Nick Randolph wrote: Oh the sheltered life you live. Break out of the MS bubble for a while and watch what happens in the real world. Even some dev shops are stuck on VS2008 in the same way as some enterprises are on WinXP.   <rant> If you do anything related to the old Windows Mobile platform, for example, you have to use VS2008 – and no, there are some cases where we can’t just build a Windows Phone version. Microsoft officially screwed us when killing Windows Mobile as there is no alternative for line of business applications that require peripherals and/or ruggedized devices L </rant>   Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP – Windows Phone Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Built to Roam Pty Ltd does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Built to Roam Pty Ltd.   From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012 3:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?   Thanks for the feedback. On the three different versions things, why are you using three? What you building that still requires 2005/2008?   From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?   On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> wrote: > We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ > >   > > Thoughts? I agree, somewhat, about the colour, but feel you've gone too far towards monochrome.  And if you make me learn a new set of damned icons, I won't use the bloody thing.  This is one thing I wish Microsoft would stop tinkering with.  Icons, menu layouts, dialog layouts.   Some of us don't move on completely from one version to another, but use 3 different versions of VS.  Do you have any idea how painful this is?      Take the comment/uncomment icons. WTF are they meant to represent?   </rant>   -- Meski  http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills