On 08/03/2011 03:38, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> FWIW, I recently updated from visual studio 6 (i.e. circa 1998) to
> Visual Studio 2008.  I am very impressed with the IDE: it is the best
> I've ever seen.  VS 2008 is not the latest (VS 2010 came out recently)
> so it is cheap, like $240 for non-upgrade, non-academic edition.  I have
> many pointed, on-target (IMHO) criticisms of microsoft's shortcomings, I
> love to hate them, but they definitely eat their own dog food as they
> say when it comes to development tools, and VS 2008 is pretty awesome.
>
> That said, my half-million-line windows application development career
> was most of the 1990s, and not since, so I'm using VS 2008 for pretty
> trivial windows C++ work, so I can't attest to the scalability of its
> features.
>
> My 2c.
> J
>
>

I have VS2008 also (got it a little while after it arrived) and I have=20
to agree. I also have various issues with Microsoft stuff but for speed,=20
convenience and stability VS is hard to beat. The intellisense works=20
extremely well (especially for C# and VB) and the graphical forms design=20
makes doing the more tedious stuff a lot easier/quicker.
I have always been a bit wary of "programming by numbers" type stuff.=20
For example, you can create a database app without writing a single line=20
of code (just drag/drop/set appropriate fields) or a simple internet=20
browser, in which I'm sure many can see the possible dangers. However,=20
that said I also have no problem with tools that make life easier (I=20
just believe it's good to know what is happening "behind the scenes" to=20
a certain extent, although these tools do not preclude that) and VS=20
certainly does. I have tried a few other IDEs (like QT) but I prefer VS=20
for windows apps.





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