FWIW, I recently updated from visual studio 6 (i.e. circa 1998) to=20
Visual Studio 2008.  I am very impressed with the IDE: it is the best=20
I've ever seen.  VS 2008 is not the latest (VS 2010 came out recently)=20
so it is cheap, like $240 for non-upgrade, non-academic edition.  I have=20
many pointed, on-target (IMHO) criticisms of microsoft's shortcomings, I=20
love to hate them, but they definitely eat their own dog food as they=20
say when it comes to development tools, and VS 2008 is pretty awesome.

That said, my half-million-line windows application development career=20
was most of the 1990s, and not since, so I'm using VS 2008 for pretty=20
trivial windows C++ work, so I can't attest to the scalability of its=20
features.

My 2c.
J



Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 13:52, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
>> He could use the original command-line Subversion tools. TortoiseSVN is
>> just a productivity enhancement tool for GUI, don't need to be installed
>> at all.
>> Subversion is command-line zealot compliant.
> or I can continue with Rapid SVN
> In  Netbeans doing Java I use the built in IDE tools to connect to
> repositories of various kinds, local on our own server and on the Interne=
ts
>
> I can't say I liked SourceSafe on VS 6.0
>
> I've recently switched from VB 6.0 to C# on .net 4.0 for "odds and ends"
> of windows programming, so I may look at version control etc on that. I
> did 1st use C# in 2003, but didn't stick at it. More like MS J++ than
> C++ which I've used since 1987 or 1988 perhaps. Before I did C in  1988
> or 1989
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