I couldn't help verifying my gut feeling.
I did a search for "visual micro" and "arduino eclipse plugin" (include the " when googling) . I got my gut feeling confirmed. I advice anyone who is interested in this discussion to do the same.
I also found the post you referred to (actually there are several very similar ones). The authors of these articles have names I also find back on in-correct denigrating remarks on my plugin.
Anyway one of the posts that starts with
When I first ran the Arduino IDE, I was a little bit disappointed but I thought It was the only one development environment
also contains the following
Conclusion
If you are used to write your code in Visual Studio, you may feel more confortable to work from within VS than from within the standard Arduino IDE.
This is not really the message you are giving.
Best regards
Jantje