Re: Visual Studio 2008 Project Management

Stephan Rose wrote:
Well there seems to be one minor thing one can do. When you look at the project tree, at the top there is a small icon that enables a "Show all files" option.

Click that and the "Create Filter" at least changes to "Create Folder" and you actually get to directly see the directory structure in the project.

However, when adding a new class it's still stupid and puts the class in the project's root directory. However, you can then at least afterward drag it to the correct location and it'll be physically moved there. Annoying, but I can live with it.

However, there are still dozens of other features missing in VS that Eclipse has that I've been so taking for granted I'm going nuts them not being there.

I think it's time for me to write an e-mail to the CDT developers and beg them that they get a working version of CDT with full support for the MS Compilers / Debuggers so that I can switch to Eclipse for windows development. While I have no problems with GCC, MingW's gcc version is always so outdated it's ridiculous and I don't know how much faith I place in MingW's windows libraries. At least for a commercial project I don't even wanna go there.

Stephan:

You know, I didn't know about this "Show all files" option. I don't think this was available in VC6 (which is where I first learned Visual Studio). I too have been frustrated by this feature of always adding new items to the project folder, and this "Folder view" does make things somewhat better. But I would have to say that when you right-click a sub-folder and Add some item, the fact that it gets added to the project folder by default is a bug rather than a feature.

On the other hand, when I looked briefly at Eclipse I found the "file-centric" view of the IDE even more irritating. What I wanted to do was just test compile my exiting code under GCC on Linux, and the fact that it seemed that I had to make a copy in order to import it was very alien to me. [It would have been less irritating if I had the code under Subversion source control, but I didn't.]

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David Wilkinson
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