wishlist

Most wanted feature for C# 4.0?

Some blogs on the Internet give us several clues of what C# 4.0 would be made of. I would like to know what do you really want to see in C# 4.0. Here are some related articles: C# 4 tag on Jon Skeet's blog 4 features for C# 4 What do you want in C# 4 Future Focus - I: Dynamic Lookup .NET 4, C# 4 and the DLR Channel 9 also hosts a ve...

Visual Studio 2008 Add-In Wishlist

What add-ins do you wish were available for Visual Studio 2008? Describe it here, and maybe it already exists. Or perhaps, it will soon! ...

Amazon Web services - retrieving a wishlist

I've been tinkering with Yahoo Pipes and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) SDK to retrieve my wishlist. The problem is that although I can get all the items on my wishlist just fine, it seems to include items that I've deleted too. Has anyone else used this API and noticed this? Is there a way around it? UPDATE: Requested additiona...

Delphi 2010 Beta: What's on your wishlist?

Soon Delphi 2010 "Weaver" will enter in beta. (See http://www.embarcadero.com/products/beta_programs.php) Which would be your most wanted features for the next release of Delphi? Mine (from top of the head): tooling for synchronizing the representations of DB schema (aka. DB metadata) in code and in database language enhancements: ...

Discussion: Silverlight 4 expectations

SL 3 is almost here (the official release date is the 10th of July), and most of its new features are already known (mainly UI improvements and wider support in other media formats). I think it's time open a discussion about what are the expecations from SL4. So, what features do you wish will be available in Silverlight 4? My (subjec...

Missing features in Visual Studio?

What features do you want to see in Visual Studio that are not included out of the box? I'd like to be able to: Add projects and references by dragging to the Solution Explorer. Collapse to project definitions in the Solution Explorer. Although the second can be achieved with a macro. PS: R# is does not count as a feature! ...

What features would you like added/changed in the .NET Framework?

Over the years I have found myself being limited by what's available in the .NET framework, and having to work-around the stuff that isn't there. This seems ludicrous to me because there are so many controls available on the internet, and us developers always seem to be solving the same problems over and over. For example I recently nee...

Is there a way to define 'javadoc types' - custom parameters for members?

The use case I can think of is the following: In a typical application, there are usually many members of a certain category, e.g., a web application contains many constants attribute keys, Action classes, services, etc. For each category, to maintain consistency, it is useful to document them consistently. Consider the constants used ...

Tool to generate a GUI (WinForms or WPF) from a class.

Say we've got a class like public class Doer { public int Timeout {get;set;} public string DoIt(string input) { string toReturn; // Do something that involves a Timeout return toReturn; } } Is there a tool that would create a Form or Control for prototyping this class? The GUI might have a Num...