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Plain and simple, I want to have the ability to setup more than one directory at a time when I create sync'ed directories in Windows Live FolderShare. This can be done a couple ways, as far as I see it. First, a matrix can be setup to allow the user to type paths in, which is probably my preferred method. Second, the radio buttons used to select a directory could be changed to checkboxes. The latter option would only allow you to create sync'ed directories in one parent directory, tho, so that may not be the best option.
When I'm working on a computer, I start off by doing a few things: customize the experience with my preferred settings and add a custom directory (c:\flanakin) to save all of my files to. I hate all the bloat in the protected storage directories, so I avoid them. Since I can guarrantee directories are in the same location no matter what computer I'm on, I'd really like the ability to have a checkbox that allows me to use the same directory path on all machines -- at least for the current setup, anyway. Having the ability to select a "use same directory" option would save a lot of time.
I'm just now using Windows Live FolderShare  and I'm liking what I see. Granted, I'll need some time to ensure it works as intended, but I have high hopes. I've tried a couple of other tools that didn't work out as I hoped, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed with this one. With that, when I create a sync'ed directory, I really wish I could just type the path to sync. If I know the path I want to sync, it's somewhat annoying if I have to browse thru the directory structure to find what I want. I should be able to type the path, which can then be validated. This would make sync setup quicker.
One thing I find fairly aggravating is when I want to see files that have changed locally when I'm working with a TFS repository. Sure, I can see what's been checked out, but that doesn't mean those files have all been changed. Currently, all you can do is compare them one-by-one, which is a ridiculous process. Admittedly, my main reason for doing this is because I'm anal. I don't want files to be marked for check-in if they don't have any changes; specifically, I don't want them included in the check-in changeset. Based on this, I'd like to see TFS check-ins to ignore files that haven't changed or at least provide an option to do so.
Reported @ https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=260449
Edit: Some brilliant, small-minded person closed the suggestion and said we should simply not check-in files that haven't changed. The problem with this is that means we have to manually go thru every file that's been marked as changed. Consider a large check-in that includes hundreds of files. Checking all those files would take way too long and nobody would do it. I'm somewhat aggravated about this. I'll probably end up reporting it again.
Edit: Looks like this might be in the Team Foundation Power Tool v1.2. The tfpt uu command says it is supposed to "undo unchanged files." The question is, what does this really mean? You can specify a changeset, which tells me it allows you to remove unchanged files from a previously checked-in changeset. If that's the case, I'm very excited about it. I just hope it undoes currently checked out files when a changeset is not specified. Once I play with it, I'll report back, but this really needs to get included into the product instead of being a command-line action that must be performed.
I love the ability to open all favorites in a directory by clicking the blue arrow to the right of the directory name. I just wish I could do this via the keyboard. I'm big on keyboard shortcuts and having a shortcut like Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter would be fantastic.
I just learned that Firefox has the capability to open the last closed tab by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T. This is awesome! I admit that I'd only use this once every couple of weeks or so, but just having the ability is fantastic. IE needs it!
Windows Photo Gallery is my default for all images because it's the quickest, simplest image viewer I've seen. There's only one problem... I tend to do a decent amount of graphics for applications I write, which don't usually have the same background color Photo Gallery does. Beyond that, transparent photos are displayed with a white background. I wish I could change the background color of Photo Gallery and see how transparency is used within the photos. While I want this for seeing how an image looks in different background colors, it's also nice to see images on a black background. Typically, if you're looking at photos or a movie, you have a black background to bring more focus to the color of the picture. Could you imagine watching a widescreen movie with a white background? I have a feeling it would be hard to do.
When encoding a video, I really wish I had some sort of floating toolbar or shortcut to start, pause, and stop my recording. For instance, when I'm recording a demo, if I decide to stop, I have to go find the application and click the stop button. I wish I could simply click stop on a floating toolbar (which would be invisible to the recording) or press Ctrl+Alt+E to stop it. Currently, I have to either press Alt+Tab to get to the Encoder window or click on its taskbar button, which is all recorded.
One thing I can't stand in Excel is when I have to manually click on spreadsheets when I want to toggle thru them. I wish there was a shortcut for this. The first thing that comes to mind is Ctrl+Tab, which usually toggles thru tabs in a tabbed environment. To the best of my knowledge, this shortcut isn't being used.
All too often I get an email talking about a meeting or event of some sort that I want to add to my calendar. From the inbox, I can drag the email to the calendar icon on the left. Now, if I could just do something similar from an open email. In Outlook 2007, there's an Other Actions menu item on the Message ribbon that would be perfect for this.
There are only two ways to see how much time has progressed in a currently playing video: pause/play, which interupts playback, and lock/unlock, which is just stupid. If you ask me, I think the lock/unlock work-around is simply a work-around by chance. Granted, it's better than pause/play since it doesn't interupt what you're watching, but it's not obvious. The reason I think it works by chance is because locking and unlocking adds/removes a lock icon that is only displayed next to the play time. So, when you lock/unlock, the icon is displayed, which coincidentally shows the playback timeline. What I'm thinking about is a simple play time on the informational screen displayed when you press the Enter button (I guess that's what you'd call the main button).
Give me a programmable interface!!! Need I say more? I think not.
In the end, I admit that this wouldn't be all that great of a feature. I'm merely looking at this from the point of, I have a bunch of stuff to sync and not much time to sync it in, so I want to get as much done as possible before I grab my Zune and go. I'm not sure if there's any real order to what gets sync'ed when, but I want my content to sync from the smallest/fastest to the largest/slowest. This means I want files removed first, then pictures, music by size, and finally videos added by size and conversion status. Honestly, this order may not be 100%, but you get the idea. I want to get the most sync'ing done in the least amount of time. If anything gets skipped, let it be the large video files that take forever to convert.
I was looking at a few contacts and wanted to find email I sent to them. I then thought about a feature in Gmail that listed all email with a given contact. This would be a perfect view off the contact's dialog. I want to be able to see any and all collaboration points with the contact, so show me email, appointments, and tasks. Hell, I'd even like to see how each contact is related to other contacts. Contact relationships might be a bit harder to visualize, but I can think of a few ideas that should work fairly well.
I love the fact that Visual Studio 2005 comes with a class designer. Unfortunately, as with most v1 products and features, it's quite lacking. One feature it needs is the ability to display show what interfaces a class implements and vice-versa. From any class, you can see its base class or derived classes. From any interface, you can see its base interface or interfaces. Why can't you see a classes implemented interfaces or an interface's derived classes? This just doesn't make sense to me and I hope it gets added into the next release. I haven't played with it, yet, but this is a seemingly small feature that should be included, one might think.
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