It’s simple. When I first installed Visual C# 2010, I quickly uninstalled it and went back to the previous version for one reason – it seemed terribly stripped down to me, only about a third of the buttons that used to be there were left..no way to choose which exceptions should be thrown even when they are inside a Try-Catch block, no way to display Class View/Object Browser and a few other things.
That “no way” should really be in quotation marks, because those who know the keyboard shortcuts could display them anyway. When I first installed VC#, I didn’t know the shortcuts yet, so I removed it. Later I installed it again and used the keyboard shortcuts. And now I have figured out why it was like that. When you go to Tools->Settings, you will find “Basic settings” and “Expert settings“.
The first one turns on a stripped-down mode, so I always recommend the second one; as for the speed of the program, it will have no effect. At first I thought that MS had only removed it from the menu and that in the next version of VC# it would remove it completely, but with this discovery there is growing hope that this won’t be the case. Otherwise free but quite nice environments might gain more ground, such as SharpDevelop etc..