It's just code

Do you prefer int or Int32? How about string or String? Some developers have strong preferences, others don’t care. Personally, I prefer to use the actual CLR type names (in other words I prefer Int32 and String) and since I do, I feel as though I am a second-class citizen.

Interestingly enough, it is Visual Studio who makes me feel this way! I am constantly frustrated when I use intellisense to auto-populate an object instantiation like this:

Dictionary<String,Int32> dictionary = new

If I use intellisense to populate the remaining code I am left with this:

Dictionary<String,Int32> dictionary = new Dictionary<string,int>();

This happens with any code that Visual Studio generates on my behalf: method overrides, method stubs, etc. It would be really nice to be able to specify that I prefer to use the CLR type names over their C# aliases. So I am making an official Visual Studio feature request:

Please allow us to specify whether or not suggested and generated code uses C# aliases or CLR type names.

Those of us who care will greatly appreciate it.