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Asked: 2026-05-11T17:37:19+00:00

I still find myself hand coding Visual Studio projects more than using the variety

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I still find myself hand coding Visual Studio projects more than using the variety of UI-driven menus and dialogs. For example:

  • web projects: hand code html/css in Source View vs dealing with the Design View / Properties Window
  • flushing out class files: code by hand using stuff like the prop-TAB-TAB Create Property keyboard shortcut and good ole Ctrl+[X|C|V] instead of the Class Diagram feature

Do I need to give the dialogs and menus another shot, or is this the current state of IDEs? Intellisense is the best thing since sliced bread IMO.

Steve

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    I’d be quite content to have Microsoft remove the design view from Visual Studio. I find myself cursing it every time I accidentally hit the button and wait ages for the broken rendering engine to kick in. This is from the perspective of a web developer mind you – I’m sure it’s essential for developing windows apps.

    Generally I think most of the RAD tools are not particularly useful, and in the long run end up being problematic as they’re not very flexible. When developing web forms asp.net applications the listview and repeater are generally the only controls that I use. Hand coding html/css would be the preference for most designers anyway. Tools like Dreamweaver are nice initially when you’re learning, but you do get to a stage where you realise you’re using them as a glorified text editor.

    Intellisense as you mention is utterly bad arse, and the one thing that I would miss if I switched to something like e or Textmate.

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