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Setting aside the debugger, visual studio has to be the worst IDE I've used. There are so many rough edges it is astounding.

On an ancient project, among other things I've been editing JavaScript code both in js files and inline script tags in aspx files. The indentation auto-formatting appears to choose new levels of indentation using a random number generator.

You can't add a new file to the project while it is running, or even create a file through the context menu, but it can detect when the files have changed externally and recommend restarting the project.

There's a thousand little things, but the indentation auto-formatting abomination is a constant burr under my saddle.






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