I would not call all his claims crap. I disagree with his libraries statement but agree that visual studios is better than netbeans or eclipse.
I have used c# in vs.net for years up until a year ago and am stuck using eclipse now. I miss vs.net, not so much c#.
Hmm...try Intellij Idea and I think you might get over VS. Eclipse is a bit clumsy but really powerful.
VS is basically a text editor with intellisense.
> BTW, I program in both C# and Java all the time.
So do I, so you can drop the holier than thou attitude. In case you didn't know, refactoring plugins for VS do exist, and I use them. But you're just comparing one aspect of the IDE. I use VS Team Suite, so I have built-in Unit Testing, collaboration, modelling (data and code), and multi-language projects in one solution (ie. I can write a COM object in C++ and a C# client in the same solution).
IMO, considering your objection, you are the one who hasn't done serious development in any language. (See? It's easy to drop pointless statements like that)
I can tell that you havent done enough programming in the Java world. Have you ever tried any serious refactoring or bothered analyzing your code. I didnt think so, you would have realized why visual studio sucks..
BTW, I program in both C# and Java all the time. Actually, I do about 70% C# and 30% Java. So your claims are crap.