Yes, that would be copying as opposed to reusing. We really don't have a good replacement for the component gallery. That was one of the features that we lost between the vc6->vc7 "rewrite". Not a...
Certainly, a converter that works between VC6/2002/2003/2005 is the ideal solution. Unfortunately, we don't have an out-of-the box solution for this problem. Some third party tools may exist (I know...
As Steve mentioned, we have no plans for this. I'd just like to confirm that support for "External Makefile" project types in the IDE will definitely stay, though.
You're right, the feature is not available for C++ in VS2005. The original plan was for C++ to have the code snippets feature as well, but we ended up taking a lot more time stabilizing our...
One thing to note is that in the mean time you can still keep all your current investments in MFC yet be able to use the .NET framework selectively within your application. Using C++/CLI to call some...
Unfortunately this feature does not exist. It should not be tough to develop it as a 3rd part add-in, though. So it may be a future project for one of your students :)
The documentation for EnvDTE is at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/envdte.dte.aspx. It may not be exactly adequate but it's probably the best concentrated resource you'll find out there. You can...
Your question is more about extending Visual Studio using the VSIP interface and the VCProjectEngine objet model than it is about C++/CLI. Your comments are true whether you use C++/CLI, C# or...
Also, for the IntelliSense issues, we issued a couple of hotfixes that address its performance issues with large projects. This post has more details:...
