Awesome. Using the VisualStudio project file makes me significantly more productive, so I recommend everyone on Windows use it for debugging, learning about, and editing code.
The experience is significantly better if you install the Visual Assist plugin by Whole Tomato Software: http://www.wholetomato.com/ This makes VisualStudio's IntelliSense perform significantly better, i.e. less crashy; you don't have to roll the dice every time you jump-to-definition on a symbol. It also adds ALT+SHIFT+O to open file in project, and ALT+SHIFT+S to search for symbol, which also perform significantly faster than VisualStudio's built-in equivalent feature (CTRL+,). Install it. They have a free trial, and once that expires, get Mozilla to pay for a license. You'll be more productive because of it. It's worth it. cpearce. On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 11:00:48 AM UTC+12, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > productivity wins. > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up > changes. > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
