Improving VS Tooling

[cloudRoutine]

@KevinRansom At the standup on monday you talked about some VB code that needed to be upgraded to F#, were you refering to [FSharp.Project]
https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/tree/master/vsintegration/src/vs/FsPkgs/FSharp.Project/VB/FSharpPropPage)

@enricosada You mentioned improving the REPL window, was it based on the code in VisualStudio-SharedProject or something else?

Are there other areas that need improvement that have been stuck on the backlog?

[enricosada]

@cloudRoutine that's the only vb code (property pages), some xaml+fs will be awesome (high dpi and easier to maintain). If we remove the VB proj, we can merge two c# proj inside the solution, used only because it was needed as reference (less code).

about the repl, it's the ReplWindow, just install python extension or nodejs, you'll see the improvemenent (coloring, autocomplete, tooltip). I know fsharpi need to change, but at least the vs ui is done.

i think it's the same code as roslyn repl windows for vs < 2015, with 2015 they reference the one in roslyn assembly directly.

i added #496 and a pr to add the sharedproj as submodule ( #733 ), so we can cleanup easier (without duplicate the code)

[dsyme]

Closing old discussion