Visual studio 2010 Wishlist

Question

I thought it was strange that this post did not already exist..

So post your wishlist for VS next.

Mine would be better refactoring and better intellisense a'la resharper. Also it would be nice to have built in tips on best practices. ex. warning if Dispose is not called on objects implementing IDisposable.

EDIT: Ignore the last sentence. I just hadn't seen the Code Analysis tool before, after years of programming in VS!!!!

Answer 1

If you turn on FxCop you should already get warnings about not-disposing disposable objects in Vs2008

Answer 2

I want the speed and responsiveness of 6.0 back ;(

Answer 3

Be able to completely customize the color scheme of all sub-windows and not just the editor and output.

Be able to evaluate any function on the watch window without restrictions.

Fool proof intellisense, including in odd ball templates.

.NCBs that don't inflate infinitly over time.

Full compliance with C++0x :)

Answer 4

My wish was to get the VC 6.0 ClassWizard back, and following some recent MS C++ blog discussion it might just happen.

@John T - According to MS, VS 2010 is the new VS 6.0. I sure hope so.

Answer 5

• Web.config file comparison.
• File difference built in (have these files already been uploaded?)
• Warnings if dynamic sql is used.
• Ability to wrap a namespace around multiple files, and automatic updateing of any code using such classes. (right click, wrap namespace)
• Wrap tag feature like dreamweaver used to do. (select text - wrap tag "strong")
• Also javascript + css minifying, and sprite mapping (ala runtime page optimizer) built in :D

Answer 6

• Built in code versioning system, so that you don't need to backup you code each time you make any changes which you are not checking in.
• Web.config / app.config Editor
• A improved html designer interface.
• JavaScript editor with intellisense etc.

Answer 7

actually I've got all i need with vs2008+resharper+visualsvn.

Answer 8

• Rich editor support for T4
• More tooling around WPF

Answer 9

rockscroll

Answer 10

Expanded per user project settings. Preprocessor macros come to mind.

If anybody knows how to do that in 2008 it would be appreciated.

Answer 11

Ability to create multiple profile, with customizable windows and toolbar settings for each [e.g. Server-side coder, UI Builder etc ] and configure profiles with individual projects

Answer 12

I have only one wish: working DataSet Designer

Answer 13

A resource (rc-file) editor for C++ without all the bugs.

Answer 14

• Replace .vdproj with WiX, and an upgrade wizard to convert vdproj to Wix projects.
• Replace .sln solution file format with msbuild-compatible format.
• Resolve project dependencies by project name through the solution file, as opposed to by absolute/relative path to project file. This would allow different solutions to re-use code libraries, and not have to organize all projects by the same relative paths across solutions.

Answer 15

Intellisense and debugger for TT, T4, TextTemplate (whatever name you like to give to this great tool which is quite useless and unknown now).

Answer 16

How about a text editor that can handle long files again! 2003 was fine with 10K+ line long files, 2005 and 2008 choke on anything more than about 2K.

Answer 17

• Speed up the Add References dialog
• Stop auto-raising when the system is in focus-follows mouse mode

Answer 18

Control + clicking a method = Goes to the method's Definition (could apply to variables and classes too!) (Yes, I know the context menu has this choice.)

Answer 19

A tool bar that populates itself with the buttons you use most frequently and are not shown on the other toolbars present.

Answer 20

Not storing the intellisense cache in my profile. Nothing like logging onto another machine and having it take 15 minutes to pull down my 2GB profile.

Answer 21

Intellisense that works reliably on C++.

Answer 22

I want to be able to not install things. If you so choose, you should be able to get exactly what you want.

It's sad when I hear the only difference between Typical and Full install is the 64bit compilers, I shake my head.

Answer 23

How about spell check for comments and string like you find in word.

Answer 24

I want the IDE to be responsive while its compiling - that way I can look through other code or review my code while its building instead of looking at an almost unresponsive screen.

Answer 25

Roll the 40 gazillion component installations all under the one "Visual Studio" entry in Add/Remove Programs.

Answer 26

When searching, add option to select which type of files to search. When I search for code, I don't care what's in designer or markup. When I'm looking for markup, exclude designer and code files.