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Thomas Huijer

At last: my pet complaint about Visual Studio has been fixed!

One of the things that has bugged me most about the Visual Studio IDE has been fixed in VS2010. In just about every training I teach, I mention this at least once. Actually, some people were complaining to me about complaining about it too much. ;-)

The one I mean is the Project and Project item dialog:

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The problem I had with this dialog are the following:

  1. It’s not sorted by default
  2. You can’t sort it in any way
  3. You can’t filter it in any way
  4. The Dialog is not sizeable.

This makes it so damn hard to choose the right template fast. I don’t want to stare 5 seconds at this dialog just to find the template I need. So I was very delighted when I opened a new project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. In Visual Studio 2010 the dialog looks like this:

VS2008 Dialog

Yeah, baby! Now I can sort, filter and resize it. Whoohoo!

Published mei 22 2009, 11:58 by Thomas
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Thomas is a senior consultant and trainer. He's interested in anything related to improving software quality like clean code, testability, process optimalization, architectures and developer tools. Thomas can be reached at thomas@oosterkamp.nl.