Quote Originally Posted by nuzzle View Post
Regarding the MFC I think you should be happy if you can still use them in VS 2012. MFC is definitely legacy now and to get MS to even mention them you'll have to torture a representative. The longer you stick to MFC the stronger you'll feel MS coercing you to move on to .NET and even better, Metro.
I will agree MFC is 'legacy' and in some area's it shows, but it is still very much alive and is getting updates and bug fixes (I have personally posted several bugs on MS connect, and most are solved, unfortunately some aren't going to get fixed >.<).
As much as MS wants, .NET doesn't solve everything, and neither does metro. Some applications just don't make a whole lot of sense as a metro app, or are even impossible to do. A key feature here is that metro apps don't "run" in the background, only 1 app is active at a time and all other apps get just a very small amount of time to update their 'tile'.
Any app that needs constant background processing won't work as a metro app.

MFC isn't going to see a lot of attention because it's nothing new. Even if they add new stuff, it's still "old". A LOT of apps are MFC based, MS can't just decide to stop supporting MFC anywhere soon.


Regarding intellisense, VS is playing catch-up. Eclipse for example is way ahead in "everything at your fingertips" friendliness in general. This must be a major embarrassment for MS so you can expect improvements in VS 2012.