Whidbey Usability Issues
I was working with Whidbey since the early betas and I'm
still waiting for some changes in order to improve
usability of the VS IDE on C# property pages.
May be I'm the only user that feel that the usability of
setting project properties C# is not good. But let me
explain a bit more.
When you select properties on a C# project the property
dialog appears. It seems like a document window but if you
change something nothing happens, there isn't dirty flag,
there isn't apply button, so after I change a value in
this dialog, I alwayspress in some place in the screen so
the window loses the focus, and sometimes I come back to
the dialog in order to see if the property was set, this
interaction is really unintuitive for me.
Additionally this dialog seems to be generated on the fly
(and this generation is slow), and the screen is not well
used (big textboxes, etc), I always have to scroll to see
the button selectors, and more.
In VS 2003 I could select 3 C# projects for example and
change a property, how can I do that in VS 2005?
VC++ continues with the old style dialog, Is VC++ going
to change to the new style ?