derek hatchard

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June 2004 - Posts

Refactoring in VB8?

I got pretty excited when I saw Refactor menus when I went to customize my menu in Visual Studio 2005 May CTP today.  I added some options like Extract Method, Promote Local Variable to Paramter, Generate Method Stub, and Reorder Parameters to one of my toolbars but they are always disabled.  I tried adding them to my Code Window context menu but they don't show up.  Other customizations like Comment Selection do show up in the Code Window context menu so I did get the right context menu.  Just vapor features, I guess.  I'm still hoping...

Windows development: Right-click, Set As Startup Object?

Why is there no option in the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio .NET 2003 or even the latest Visual Studio 2005 CTP to right-click a form and select Set As Startup Object?  Having to go through Project Properties to do that seems so Visual Basic 6.

When I write Web apps I can right-click any ASPX page and select Set As Startup Page.  I don't use that feature too often for Web apps, but I regularly wish I had it during Windows app development.  Even if my app will ultimately startup from Sub Main, it's very common, at least in our office, to use various startup forms when working on different parts of the app.  It *seems* like such a simple feature to add.

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