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>>>>>I haven't noticed any slowness yet myself but I only started looking at it. I did immediately notice that it is entirely WPF in design and opening VS2008 rdlc files requires a conversion to take place. Haven't tested bringing in an entire project or solution yet though and may not have time for that for awhile. The look and feel is really really nice though---like the x on the tabs for closing (like IE tabs) instead of all of them on the one x in the top right corner of that window.
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>>>>Thank you for your input. Since I don't have VS2008 and don't even know what "rdlc" is, I won't be needing conversion. I will be starting my learning of WPF; that's all. It would be nice if for WinForms application they (MS) would improve the IDE to allow for visual design (similar to what VFP does) but I am not holding my breath.
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>>>What do you mean? There are plenty of visual design tools in WinForms. Now in VS 2010 they exist for WPF as well.
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>>Compared to VFP the VS (at least the 2005) with WinForms projects is very inferior. It is like working with .PRG only and no visual classes. Not fun at all.
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>Have to agree with Mike on this one. The VS IDE is pretty much superior to VFP in every respect. The toolbox particularly, the document outliner, tokens, bookmarks, the search capabilities. As to visual design, at VERY least everything VFP does.
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>The one place it falls show is in the ability to see non-default props only in the properties sheet or to easily pick "favorite" properties as in some enhancements to VFP by the VFox folks.

You said, "at VERY least" everything VFP does.

1. Can you add properties to a form visually? No.
2. Can you add methods to a form visually? No.
3. Can you drop a BIZ object on a form and set values to properties visually? No.
4. Can you create a library of your classes visually? No.
5. When you look at a property of a control in IDE can you tell what is the parent class of this control?
6. If you have a project of base classes and you make a change there, you have to Rebuilt every project that derives their classes (during the design).
I can go on an on.

I think we see IDE differently. I love C# compiler; no question this is a great language. But not the IDE.