Visual Studio is Sweet
Posted by Matt Johnson | 2008-04-12 13:23:59
I can't believe I've gone on so long without using Visual Studio. It's really awesome. The greatest thing about it is the Intellisense feature.
If you can't remember a specific property, Intellisense is right there with the correct property selected. Same goes for methods and functions. A lot of editors like UltraEdit Studio, Dreamweaver, and EasyEclipse have a low end version of Intellisense (I think they call it Intellitips). When you type in a recognized function, a little tooltip will show up saying what the arguments are. That's nice, but not nearly as useful as Intellisense.
If you create a new object, and you want to run a method, all those other editors won't list all the available methods for that object, but Visual Studio and Intellisense will. You don't need to memorize all the methods or look at a diagram of the class to figure it out.
I just wish Visual Studio had support for PHP, but for now Visual Studio for C# is ok.