Re: Visual Studio 2008 Project Management

Stephan Rose wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:38:21 -0400, David Wilkinson wrote:

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version is always so outdated it's ridiculous and I don't know how much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.

Thinking back, I think it started to become available in 2003. The bug has been present since then. In my opinion, inexcusable.

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.]

I suppose I'm used to it and think nothing of it.

I'm currently testing various add-ins for visual studio to see if I can make it behave in a better way. Visual Assist seems to help out with a lot of the shortcomings but it's syntax highlighting is still sub-par compared to that of Eclipse. At least though it does introduce working intellisense, though a bit too intrusive in my opinion. Eclipse shuts up until I ask it for intellisense whereas this plugin automatically pops things up all the time. A little annoying but I suppose I can get used to it.

Of course, the $250 price tag for the add-in just to get most of the functionality that Eclipse offers for free is really a pain.



When you create a new (whatever) right click the folder into which you want the item created. It will then create the new object in that folder.

LS
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