I didn't find it cumbersome, but as the description on the download site mentioned, the developers were basically building the IDE for themselves. So as they saw functionality they wanted for themselves they added it.

So some very useful right-click functionality was missing at the time. I would assume it's been added in the years since.

>>Although, technically one could also use the free IDE CsharpDevelop (I believe it's called). I used it a couple yrs ago and it was maybe 80% of what VS IDE provided.
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>>>I agree. The best way to create .Net apps is with Visual Studio...but not required.
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>>>>Uhm...well, technically that's true. But to paraphrase Richard Nixon, "you could do that....but it would be wrong". <s>
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>I tried it then also, and found it cumbersome and lacking certain functionality I liked. Haven't used it since.