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| Subject: RE: Resource editor for Visual Studio .NET
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| Hi Jeffrey,
|
| > Thank you for showing us your inconvinience.
| > VS.net's resource editor is changed to the similar to the VB6.0's.
| > Its RAD function is good, but some other funciton limitation let you
| > inconvinience.
| > I think everything can not be all perfect.
|
| I was not expecting perfect.
| I was expecting better than what I had in VC4-VC6.
| But is it worse. Maybe it is better than the VB6 resource editor.
| But as a C/C++ (and now C#) developer I am loosing functionality I had.
|
| > I am sorry my reply let you think that I am the defender of MS products.
| It's normal and it's ok.
|
| > In fact, we are happy to get information from customer to improve our
| > products.
| > I will reflect your suggestion to our product survey.
| My pleasure. This is the only way things can improve.
|
| I am actually working as a localization engineer, so part of the issues
are
| related to this.
|
| I don't say Developer Studio .Net is not better than VC6.
| But in some respects (the resource editor included) it is worse.
|
| Let me give you some other samples of "improvemen ts" that I don't
perceive as
| improvements:
| 1. the resx file format
| This is an XML file. But XML was designed to represent structure.
| The resx does not take advantage of this in any way.
| It is in fact a 3 column table:
| name type value
| If I want to know if something in the 'value' tag is localizable, I
have to
| check the attribute 'type' of it's 'data' parent. Ouch!
|
| When I first heard about .NET using XML as resource format, I was
expecting
| something like this:
|
| <dialog caption="Captio n Text" font="Arial,8" style="some flags"
| coord="0,0,120, 200">
| <button text="OK" id="IDOK" coord="10,10,30 ,14" align="left" ... />
| ... etc ...
| </dialog>
|
| Before, someone was able to look at an RC file and figure out
| "this is a dialog, with 3 buttons and 2 labels."
| Not anymore!
|
| 2. Having a form per file.
| This is another VB bad idea.
| We did localize pretty big applications, some of them with 500 dialogs
or
| more. It is pretty typical to get 3-4 rc files with 200 dialogs.
| Now the option is 200 dialogs in 200 files!
| Importing/exporting in/from translation tools is difficult, global
searches,
| everything.
| Instead of loading 1 file and resizing 100 dialogs, now I have to load
100
| files.
|
| 3. The "Add function" wizard (when developing C++ with Dev Studio Net).
| It is killing me. Before I was able to type everything I needed in two
lines:
| return value and the function signature.
| Now I have to fight for every single parameter. It does not save me time.
| The 'return type' and 'parameter type' don't have even the most useful
| types. There is a char, bad not TCHAR. No HWND, no nothing.
| So I type as much as before, but I have to interrupt to 'Add' every
| parameter.
|
| There is more than point-and-click.
| There are still peoples out there than can do batch processing, scripts,
| can type without a wizard supervision, don't use the mouse unless
necessary.
| I understand MS Word is not for them.
| But a developer tool should be for them first, and only after "for
dummies."
|
| Mihai
|
