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Back in the good old days, when I worked in C++ I would use the class view in Visual Studio as my primary means of navigation. When I switched to .NET, I stopped using it and switched to solution explorer which seems to be the norm amongst the .NET crowd.
These days, I tend to use Resharper to get where I want to go quickly, but let's not muddy the point with that.
Thing is, I don't know why I switched (it might be the presence of annoying namespaces), and I still think in classes rather than files - don't we all? Today, I'm going to go back to the old ways to see how I get on.
Do people still use class view or know the cause of its demise in popularity?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Probably because the best practice in .net is one class per file and to use folders for your namespaces so in a way the solution view kinda is the class view, but you get all the other stuff as well that aren't classes.
Though I dare say most VB.net solutions probably warrant the class view more 
*find Form14*
*find TextBox31*
*or is it Button17 I'm after*
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I've never used class view.
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I use the class view indirectly - i.e. by the class member drop-down at the top right of the source window. It's my primary means of navigating to methods and properties.
/ravi
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With C++ and MFC I use class view when I want to add message handlers or virtual functions (and that does not happen often nowadays).
Other than that, solution explorer and Visual Assist.
I'd rather be phishing!
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File-based.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Solution explorer, partly because I always have, partly because there's usually more in a solution than just classes.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Do people still use class view or know the cause of its demise in popularity?
Depends what I'm doing. For the most part, solution explorer is the more useful view. I have no idea as to whether or not class view was ever popular and, therefore, suffered a demise thereafter. 
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Always been Solution Explorer for me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Solution Explorer primarily. But I wonder if the Class View would help in managing partial classes implemented across multiple files....
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Hmm, I'll have to try class view. It's alphabetic, which is useful.
Rob Philpott wrote: Do people still use class view or know the cause of its demise in popularity?
Let's see. Ruby. Javascript. Python...
Honestly, I don't think most developers really understand the purpose of classes and how to use them. Certainly in C#, I imagine the popular concept of a class is "well, methods have to be wrapped in a class."
Marc
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There was a lot of fanfare around the upcoming Anniversary Update for Windows 10, including Windows Subsystem for Linux.
However, the planned release date of August 2nd has come and gone, and there seems to be not a sign of the final version.
Anyone heard anything?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Um...it's July 5th today?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ditto. Maybe we should ask for next weeks winning lottery numbers? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Phew I thought I'd missed my birthday then!
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Super Lloyd. We've found where your time machine went. Rob nicked it.
This space for rent
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Is this a post from the future?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Nope, just a bad August Fool's joke. 
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Call Auntie! We've discovered The Doctor's real name!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oops. Hangs head in shambolic shame.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Recently I found myself looking through a textbook to find some data time stuff, and I found it somewhat refreshing to go to an index page then turn to a page? Does anybody else find themselves looking over textbooks and manuals for your questions and how to?
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Not since the DOS 5.1 manual. Today, we have MSDN.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sigh.. 5.0; twas a big fat reference-manual, with complete syntax for each command; over 500 pages. Later versions did not come with a big manual, but with a small booklet, mostly disclaimer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nope.
I haven't opened a single paper book since I got my tablet in 2012...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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