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Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#91
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I'm excited to use VS 2017 and generally very pleased with their C++ language support and integrations like git and cmake. It's a minor nitpick, but I must say I was disappointed to see this issue unceremoniously closed: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...

It has been reopened.

I am curious, did you vote for this item? If so, did you receive an email when we closed it?

Thanks! Eric, VC++ Team

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#92
post #58

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As a newcomer to .net I was really confused by the lacking refactoring support in Visual Studio (yes, things we spoiled Java brats take for granted like extract method, extract class, move to separate file etc). Is this available in VS 2017? Edit: and live unit testing! I was looking forward to that until I found out it was only available in the enterprise version. (And yes, here you have an edge on Java anyway I thi…

I think "most everyone" just uses Resharper - Microsoft kind of has a background of letting a healthy ecosystem of 3rd party addin providers exist, and only gradually incorporates the best features into the core product.

Not at all. Never used resharper after 10+ years of .Net.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#93
post #75

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Note that you can't use VS community for your work if your organization has either of 1) more than 5 developers 2) more than $1 mill in revenue 3) more than 250 computers

What happened to VS express?

It still exists unfortunately. I say unfortunately because the multi billion company I work for is too cheap to spend a bit of money for our most important tool if a free gimped version exists.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#94

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We're a worldwide company that embraces diversity and benefits hugely for it, so honestly I am disappointed very much with your comment.

FWIW I took the ethnic descriptor just as a bookmark not as a condemnation of the person. I think they were referring to the scripted father/daughter bits and the "oh wow you were 6 thats great", not anything about the presenters accent or background. Probably not relevant for an HN comment, but also probably not anti diversity.

That's actually what I didn't liked. It felt so played and fake that it gives opposite message.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#95
post #79
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that you can't use VS community for your work if your organization has either of 1) more than 5 developers 2) more than $1 mill in revenue 3) more than 250 computers

>more than 5 developers *more than 5 developers using visual studio community

Good point, thanks. Still close to useless for professional use, which I guess is Microsofts idea.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#96
post #75

For those who don't know, VS community is feature wise almost identical to professional, less CodeLens, Azure benefits, and TFS features. https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/

Note that you can't use VS community for your work if your organization has either of 1) more than 5 developers 2) more than $1 mill in revenue 3) more than 250 computers

You can, if the work is contributing to open source software.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#97

I'm super excited about VS2017. But excuse me this launch video (beginning, with Chinese presenter) is super cringe-inducing. Horrible.

We're a worldwide company that embraces diversity and benefits hugely for it, so honestly I am disappointed very much with your comment.

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Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#98
post #58

Its a great sense of relief to finally ship this product, we really hope folks give it a try and join our live keynote which is streaming now at http://launch.visualstudio.com

As a newcomer to .net I was really confused by the lacking refactoring support in Visual Studio (yes, things we spoiled Java brats take for granted like extract method, extract class, move to separate file etc). Is this available in VS 2017? Edit: and live unit testing! I was looking forward to that until I found out it was only available in the enterprise version. (And yes, here you have an edge on Java anyway I thi…

Visual Assist by Whole Tomato Software [1] is a solid and well known refactoring plugin. For C++, it provides me a huge productivity boost. There is a C# version as well.

[1] http://www.wholetomato.com/

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

#100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to VS express?

It still exists unfortunately. I say unfortunately because the multi billion company I work for is too cheap to spend a bit of money for our most important tool if a free gimped version exists.

Mine has unlimited paid licenses with one-click install for most Visual Studio editions. Time to swap to a company that provides better tooling =D
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