Friday, November 02, 2007

Why No Ribbon in Visual Studio 2008?

Yesterday I was getting frustrated with the completely user-unfriendly massive toolbar that Visual Studio boasts, and noted that Visual Studio 2008 *should* have gotten the ribbon toolbar that shipped with Office 2007.  My cube-mate Peter said,
"They'd probably get sued by the Office Team."

Well said, my friend.  They probably would.  For "Toolbar Infringement." 

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Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:35:10 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
another reason to just learn the shortcuts ;-)
shey | sheysrebellionAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:03:37 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Oh my god!! I hope you don't give them that idea!! I installed Office 2007 (test version) and I REALLY hate that. It's not that the classical toolbars are awsome, but the ribbon toolbar is far a away from being a usefule UI.
Marcelo Ruiz
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:43:35 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
When I saw a screenshot of Visual Studio 2008 on their download page (for the Express editions) I saw a ribbon and thought, "Oh No!" but was relieved when I looked closer and realized that it was only a control on their example project, and that VS2008 has real toolbars and menus.

I too hate the Ribbon in Office 2007, and so I stick with 2003 on one computer and OpenOffice.org on the other. I am glad Visual Studio did not go the Ribbon route -- that would have made it virtually unusable to me.

Mike
Mike L
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