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Ray wrote:

> Recently I have had to use C# in Visual Studio.NET. The IDE's are similar,
> and there is no problem switching, but the Borland IDE is much more user
> friendly. The Microsoft one gives you the impression that it was designed by
> a committee.

I don't think this is fair. Despite the superficial similarity of the
pinned windows, the two are very different in many ways, and a
long-time Delphi user will keep hitting his head against the wall of
Not The Way Delphi Does It. But, if you give it a fair try, and get to
the point where routine tasks are as familiar in VS as in BDS, I think
you'll find that VS is quite nice, and packed with useful features -
many of which can't really be described as "little". For me, the big
two are the autoformatter and the tool tips that pick up your (XML
structured) comments on your own code. But there are others, like the
little navigation dropdowns in code edit windows; the really nice
window splitting code, and the tab dragging code; macros that persist
span sessions. VS.2005 has rock-solid code to write interface
implementation stubs, which takes all the annoying drudge work out of
implementing and interface.

What I find telling is that many people who reluctantly started using
VS while they waited for D8 haven't come back.

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