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I want VS to let me write code. I want to find and manipulate text. I want it to compile fast and produce relevant warnings. I want a debugger. I want it to host duiverse plugins. That's mostly it.

That's all I want Visual Studio for, too. Fortunately those things will continue to work and we can continue to ignore things like TFS and mstest.



It would be really nice if you could strip the things out of VS that you don't want. For me, all I really want is the code editor, R#, NCrunch, nuget, and the debugger. There might be a few other things that I didn't think of right away. I personally prefer to do source code management (git) outside of the IDE, because I find visual studio doesn't tend to make good choices about what should be controlled.

If I could make VS just do those things and nothing else, that would be really nice.


I strip down the UI a lot. I don't have any toolbars visible, for example. It's not exactly the same thing, but I have no complaints, really.




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