OK, first take a deep breath and repeat after me, “Jeff is not asking me to give up Visual Studio.”
Far from it. Visual Studio is without question the most productive environment for developing for Windows.
When everything is going well it functions like your little robotic code-monkey assistant. Memorizing a million API calls and settings is dumb. They will change. Your little robo-minion, however, has those APIs hardwired into his mechano-simian brain. Start typing and he will start suggesting possible matches.