Next Visual Studio going multi-screen? Microsoft has again hinted at changes in the next major release of Visual Studio allowing developers to spread out across different monitors. Noah Coad, Microsoft program manager for the Visual Studio platform, has confirmed changes are in the works that will help developers build applications in some kind of split-screen mode …
Other requests:
Nice simple way of getting a file size off the 'net before it's downloaded
A wrapper for SAPI so it's as easy to use as in GlovePIE (just with the ability to get the contents of the speech buffer as a nice simple variable)
WMP control that doesn't flicker when transparent windows are placed over it
Though multiscreen does sound pretty good- a lot of people are going multi-monitor these days!
Like other people, I'm a bit confused about this too. VS already is able to be "spread" over more than one monitor. In fact, looking at my home setup right now, I have the main window on one monitor with the solution explorer, output, and find windows open on the other.
Maybe they mean a simple expansion on VS so that you can have multiple documents open on different monitors? That\s the only think it seems to be missing (or I can't find that feature).
But please Microsft....concentrate on making thinks like intellisense work properly with classes derived from templates first, eh? This would make me a much happier programmer.
YEah, I run VS on two screens; I generally have the code on screen one and the web site on screen two.
But VS is a single-window app; I can't have one of its windows on one monitor and one on another, and hit maximise on either without filling both screens. IIRC one of the bigger apps (Corel? Aldus Pagemaker?) tried a "totally independent window for each control" approach a few years back, but it was too cumbersome.
Oh, and the Hercules setup - ah, happy days! <oldSchool>When I wrote a DOS-based graphical CBL authoring system in the late 80's/early 90's using MS C6, I used to have a three monitor system: EGA for the output, Hercules for debugging and video for the LaserDisc</oldSchool>
And you try to tell the young code monkeys of today that, and they won't believe you...
If they said they could use multiple computers that would be an advance.
On Linux you can do distributed builds on multiple machines.
WTF?
This is an ADVANCE?
They are just catching up!
And still from a great distance.
Don't you dare change Microsoft!
Headlines like that will sink them!
Paris, because even she will be laughing at that!
This is really disappointing from El Reg. It's not "going multi-screen" nor are they hinting that they are "allowing developers to spread out across different monitors". If you read the original referenced blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2007/10/10/multi-monitor-support-in-vs10.aspx you can see they're talking about ways of improving it.
It's got to be Paris, it's as dumb as.....
Now if I could get Eclipse to do multi-screen better than it does right now (Drag and drop code windows over to other screen, etc) I'd be happy.
I like Eclipse, but I miss writing Java, C and Perl in vim. I could see so much more in a text-only environment, and I actually had to think about what I was doing to make sure I got my syntax correct. Plus vim had all the syntax highlighting done so I could see what everything was...
I wouldn't need dual monitor if I was still able to code in vim. Plus, I wouldn't need 1000 times the memory as I used to have space on my hard disk.
*sigh*
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