There are somethings you get so used to in visual studio that they become second nature, they are part of your programming experience. Take for example the tooltips when typing a method or function, you know the one, it shows all the parameters and their types.
Now imagine that you don’t have that any more. You just have some crappy “pattern” button where you can type in the method name and it inserts the method signature complete with blanks for you to fill in.
Then you still have to dip into the method code or help (if there is any such help) to figure out what types the parameters you are using are.
Undoubtedly SAP platform is very powerful and has a language built for helping customize and take advantage of your platform. But the tools, the tools your given and the documentation really, really, suck.
I one day hope that the MS/SAP interoperaility project goes so far as to have a ABAP plugin for visual studio, complete with MSDN style documentation.
I can dream.
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Yeah Simon, you are right. We live in this (ABAP) world so much we don’t know how everyone else lives. Except we do and we just get on with it through clenched teeth. The new tools in newer version are starting to get there but it is a slow train coming.
feeling your pain,
Nigel
Luckily I have the new tools Im playing with the latest version of SAP, they still suck though.