Please stop taking away functionality from us

[Claire Streb]

Dear Microsoft,

You make some great products, really, but I have a request: Please
stop taking away functionality from your users.

1) In Visual Studio 6, we had two output folders, Debug and Release.
In Visual Studio .NET for C#, the default is to have SIX output
folders (bin, bin/Debug, bin/Release, obj, obj/Debug, and
obj/Release), and the targets are duplicated (that is, I have two
copies of my dll and pdb). Yes, I know we can change our output
folder, so I have, and am now down to five folders (Debug, Release,
and the three obj folders). It sure would be nice if you could add
the obj path to the property pages like you have the output path.

2) In Visual Studio 6, we had the ability to specify a debug DLL
reference and a release DLL reference. In VS.NET for C#, to that
functionality, we must have a project reference. So, if we do not
have the project, now we are forced to have two projects so we can
reference the correct DLL. It sure would be nice to be able to have
one project that can choose between debug and release DLLs.

Thank you.

(If this is not the right newsgroup to place such posts, please
forgive me, but all of my other suggestions to your company have
fallen on deaf ears up until this point, so I'm trying a different
avenue.)

 

[Martin Dechev]

Hi,

You can direct your requests and suggestions regarding Microsoft products to
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/

Greetings
Martin Dechev
ASP.NET MVP

 

[Guest]

They probably don't read it.
But at the end of the day, they didn't take it *away* from you, because you
didn't have .NET before - .NET is a new product. They haven't come round and
stolen VC6 off you, or forced you to uninstall it in favour of .NET.