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Visual Studio is, by nearly all accounts, a stable, mature, full-featured tool to build stable, mature, full-featured corporate and commercial applications. With a decade of constant development behind it, this IDE should be well-refined-after all, it is on version 8.0.

But developers and development managers are a fussy lot. Their tools are their lives and they take features, bugs and overall stability a bit more seriously than a casual Web surfer takes his browser.

With that in mind, several dozen Redmond and Redmond Developer News readers told us exactly what they love, and, well, don't love about Visual Studio, all so we can tell Microsoft how to make the next round of products better. And Microsoft is clearly listening, as no less than three product managers responded to your advice, suggestions and complaints. Some of your issues are being worked on now, and others are handled by Visual Studio 2005 SP1, which shipped at the tail end of last year. " (Redmond Developer)