[highwaylights]

How much time do you have?

P-code debugging with fully rewindable edit and continue.

A one-true-way event model that was derided at the time but was really just years ahead of its time.

Minimal runtime downloads to install apps locally, which also produced tiny, performant executables.

The sweet, sweet With keyword. I know, I know. But I don’t care. Just be more aware of your namespaces.

Also (and I still don’t understand why we can’t have this in VS Code when VS had this in 1998) object combos at the top of the code file for class and method (admittedly VS proper still has this I’m just grumpy at the regression)

[viraptor]

> The sweet, sweet With keyword.

VB.net supports With though?

> Minimal runtime downloads to install apps locally, which also produced tiny, performant executables.

.net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days so you can deploy one exe without shipping your own runtime. Yes, officially you shouldn't, but there's so much stuff that depends on it now.

[wcoenen]

> net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

There is no "net framework 2.7":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration...

[viraptor]

Typo - I meant 4.7. Although it looks like they finally moved to 4.8 in w11.

[sn_master]

> .net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

Yes, but that wasn't the case back in the mid-2000s when VB6 was dying and no one wanted to migrate to VB.Net

[ShadowBanThis01]

One thing that sucks about those combos, if I remember correctly: Don’t they show only the members of the class your cursor happens to be sitting in, and not those in the whole file? That’s just monumentally dumb. I remember cursing at those as I hunted through a bunch of files for some function… only to find it was right there in the file I had up but Microsoft didn’t show it.

I remember scorning Xcode back when it was Project Builder, but saying Hey, at least its drop-down member lists work properly.