Vote for a edit/continue function in csharp whidbey

[Wim Bonjean]

Hi,

I recently was at the MS dev days and some speaker mentioned that there is a
cool feature that allows edit/continue, so you can debug, edit and continue
without recompiling. But, this feature was only for VB, because the
development team thinks that c# developers aren't interested in such a
feature.

DUH! Offcourse we are, right?

So let's all post a message for microsoft that we also want a edit/continue
feature. They said they are listening at the voice of the developer
community.

Wim

 

[Jeremy Ames]

Oh yeah! I am very interested in that. I have had to stop my application and
recompile many times due to that. I am used to doing that with VB and I
definitely miss that functionality.

Hi,

I recently was at the MS dev days and some speaker mentioned that there is a
cool feature that allows edit/continue, so you can debug, edit and continue
without recompiling. But, this feature was only for VB, because the
development team thinks that c# developers aren't interested in such a
feature.

DUH! Offcourse we are, right?

So let's all post a message for microsoft that we also want a edit/continue
feature. They said they are listening at the voice of the developer
community.

Wim

 

[Bret Pehrson]

Wow, what a neat idea!

Oh, wait, this is an *old* feature -- MSVC had it in v6.

It is beyond me why MS continually introduces features in a product, and then
all of a sudden the feature is gone in the next version.

Of course edit-and-continue is a valuable feature.

 

[Aaron Queenan]

Wow, what a neat idea!

Oh, wait, this is an *old* feature -- MSVC had it in v6.

It is beyond me why MS continually introduces features in a product, and then
all of a sudden the feature is gone in the next version.

Of course edit-and-continue is a valuable feature.

I completely agree. Going from VC6 (and VS.NET for unmanaged C++), both
which have edit and continue, to C# is really great for some types of
development, BUT the lack of edit and continue for C#.NET is a pain, because
making small changes to the application and retesting becomes a 10 minute
job (especially with the incredibly slow VS.NET debugger).

Aaron.

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

DUH! Offcourse we are, right?

Personally; not very, no.



Mattias

 

[Magnus]

Hi,

I recently was at the MS dev days and some speaker mentioned that there is a
cool feature that allows edit/continue, so you can debug, edit and continue
without recompiling. But, this feature was only for VB, because the
development team thinks that c# developers aren't interested in such a
feature.

DUH! Offcourse we are, right?

So let's all post a message for microsoft that we also want a edit/continue
feature. They said they are listening at the voice of the developer
community.

Wim

I'll add my vote.

Without E&C you have to:
1. Stop debugging.
2. Make your changes.
3. Compile.
4. Start up debugging.
5. Navigate through X screens to get back to where you were.
6. if(GotItRight){return;}else{goto 1;}

With E&C:
1. Make your changes.
2. Set next statement to above the changes and keep going.
3. if(GotItRight){return;}else{goto 1;}

I'd estimate that no E&C costs me on average 2-3 minutes per iteration
of the above algorithm, and that I perform 20-50 such iterations per
day. That's 40-150 minutes per day!

/Magnus Lidbom

 

[Guest]

I'm all for it. That would be a great feature.