>>That's certainly true. The intellisense is MUCH more helpful.
>>That said, VS2015 is a lot smarter than VS2003, where I learned C#.
>>One has to wonder what the VFP IDE would have looked like had MS allowed it to progress.
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>I think it would look pretty much like the VS IDE. It's really a shell that you can plug things into. For example SSMS does that.

I seriously hope SSMS is not an appropriate example of a coding IDE done in VS. I've already compiled a looong list of things wrong in it.