>>>>And the product is called Visual Studio and everything is class based - what a joke.
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>>>The fact that there isn't much visual inheritance in VS does not make it a joke. The visual is the preview that you have in all of your design efforts. I like the fact that everything is class-based.
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>>I never said it was a joke. Only the Visual part is a joke. If I design my forms Visually, then why not my classes? After all a form is a class anyway.
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>>Also what I meant by everything is class based is that since this is the actual case, then why is it that I cannot design visually using the basic building blocks - a class.
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>Back in 2004 when I started to mess with .NET, I posted here a similar message asking why I couldn't *visually* design my *visual* classes in *Visual* Studio :)

Exactly my point Mike, especially since everything in .Net is a class, It's called Visual but you cannot visually design a class.