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Comment by giancarlostoro

4 days ago

Only thing I want to hear about lately is the next major version of Visual Studio, I feel like it will never come. I always feel like every major version has drastic improvements, and I'm starved for them.

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wvbdmp  3 days ago

They’re consolidating the tech with SQL Server Management Studio, last I heard. I think they mean to get the rewrite of SSMS out this fall, but I may be misremembering. A new major version of VS is probably coming, although I must say I’m pretty pleased with the current tranquility.

qingcharles  4 days ago

This thing has barely changed in the ~30 years I've been using it. There's definitely room for some more improvements.

  • sumtechguy  4 days ago

    You can divide visual studio into 4 era's. The vs6 (we smashed all of our dev tooling together and its integrated decently) era, the vs2002/vs2003/vs2005 (we broke it all and you will like it and never speak of C++ again), vs2010 era (we fixed all of that from 2002 sorry about that), vs2017/vs2022 (it updates from the internet and takes forever to install and now does everything).

    The problem is MS is unwilling to stick with anything dev wise. The whole ecos system is a littered realm of half forgotten techs that may or may not be supported anymore. Wrapped with very confusing messaging to the devs what to use.

    • tracker1  4 days ago

      I prefer VS Code... though MS has for better or worse kept the .Net tooling relatively weak. I'll use Rider or VS on a few occasions... then retreat back to Code as much as I can.

      For split web projects, definitely work on the web ui in VS Code.

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fsfod  4 days ago

Maybe they will use this chance to finally switch it away from the .NET Framework to the modern dotnet runtime with its many years optimizations.