VS.NET is the IDE you use for .NET programming. Nothing else even compares.
Saying this...
> Visual Studio 11 will be the sixth iteration of Visual Studio with .net support. And it’s still a terrible platform for the .net programmer.
...is at serious odds with my own reality.
Visual Studio is a great IDE for the .net programmer.
It's terrible as a platform for which you build managed addins/plugins.
From the context of the article I'm pretty sure the author is upset at the Visual Studio extensibility (and rightfully so) but I'm still confused when he made statements about it driving .Net developers away; I'd imagine less than a quarter of .Net developers actually even THINK about extending any VS functions.
I think it's mad that in 2012, it's so hard to extend Visual Studio using C# and .net.
I'm not saying it drives .net developers away. I'm saying it hurts the .net platform as a whole.
Would VS's extensibility be easier, with better APIs and documentations, we would see a lot more third party plugins to improve our programming experience with VS.
I'm simply asking for good bindings, well documented and respecting the expectations (API wise) of a managed programmer.