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2005 or not 2005, that is the question?

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  • N Nish Nishant

    Elaine, Nearly every married man would advise a single guy not to get married, but at the same time they continue to remain married. When I was running around trying to buy a car here, because the cold was too unbearable for a "pedestrian/public-transit" way of life, nearly everyone here advised me not to get a car, and that I should wait till summer - but everyone who advised me had a car(or cars), and wouldn't go one day without it. It's the same with VS 2005. Almost all of us (self included) who've been cribbing here about how it's slow, how something is broken etc. will continue to use it. None of us (or very very few of us) would go back to 2003. So, do the right thing - install 2005, and after you do that, you can join the rest of us in bad-mouthing it here on the lounge :-) Regards, Nish

    My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

    -- modified at 8:30 Friday 27th January, 2006

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    RichardGrimmer
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    Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

    None of us (or very very few of us) would go back to 2003.

    tee hee - damn straight.....even firing up 2k3 gives me the willies lol....though it would be nice if the Visual Studio version selector actually gave the option of opening in 2K3 for a 2K3 project file, rather than just blasting it stright into 2K5 then moaning that it's a 2K3 project....or perhaps I'm missing the point - perhaps stupidly assumed that a "version selector" would allow me to "select" a "version" of VS to use..... On the plus side - don't think I could live without "Surround With" now - saved my bacon more than a few times :D "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox -- modified at 10:09 Friday 27th January, 2006

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    • L Lost User

      I've seen so many posts aboujt problems with VS2005, slow runtime etc. I'm wondering if it's worth just using VS2003. Comments please. Elaine (hestistant fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D

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      Nemanja Trifunovic
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      For native C++ development? Pros: improved debugger (especially Call browser) and somewhat improved compiler (nothing dramatical, though) Cons: Slow and unstable IDE, stupid "security" warnings, and STL appears to be slower. However, if you do any XSLT, you should install VC2005 without any hesitations.

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      • N Nish Nishant

        Paul Watson wrote:

        We have the academic alliance sub. and we have dev. licenses for half of Ireland.

        Cool. I bet thay won't give that in India. Half of India is 0.5 Billion ;-) Regards, Nish

        My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

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        Paul Watson
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        hehe indeed. Though I was just being facetious about half of Ireland. I just meant we have a load of licenses (and the funny bit is only two devs in the whole company use Microsoft dev products (Brian and I.) The rest are Java/C++/etc. heads.) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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        • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

          We're unlikely to move to it for our mainstream C++ projects until SP1 is out, although I am consdering moving ResOrg to it in order to get some more detailed experience of the platforms performance with C++ projects. However, any ASP.NET, C# or XSLT work we do is likely to be under VS2005 for obvious reasons. Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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          Lost User
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          BTW, I found a nasty resource editor bug in VS2005 the other day - basically, trying to change the language of a resource to "English (USA)" adds a duff entry to the .rc file, so it won't compile! Waiting for SP1 is probably a good idea.

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            is most of your work in .NET? having been using VS2005 for C++ for about 2 days (so i am just SO experienced with it ;) ) i am getting the feeling that most of the new features you are really going to care about are aimed at C# and presumably other .NET languages. oh yes, do you have at least 4 gig of ram in your machine? while VS2005 will load on a machine with 512 meg of ram, with our solution in it (86 projects) the machine is basically unusable every time the IDE goes off to think about something, and it just took literally 5 minutes to KILL the IDE so we could shut down the machine and put in more ram. speaking as a "well whats new?" programmer using C++ and the Qt library, so totally uninterested in the new Microsoft libraries the new features are not really having any positive impact on me. using Visual Assist helps of course, so i am not aware of the apparently much improved intellisense in the IDE - i am just not using it. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

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            4 gig of ram ??:wtf: seriouly speaking , i should sell my pc to get one here. :(

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            • N Nish Nishant

              Elaine, Nearly every married man would advise a single guy not to get married, but at the same time they continue to remain married. When I was running around trying to buy a car here, because the cold was too unbearable for a "pedestrian/public-transit" way of life, nearly everyone here advised me not to get a car, and that I should wait till summer - but everyone who advised me had a car(or cars), and wouldn't go one day without it. It's the same with VS 2005. Almost all of us (self included) who've been cribbing here about how it's slow, how something is broken etc. will continue to use it. None of us (or very very few of us) would go back to 2003. So, do the right thing - install 2005, and after you do that, you can join the rest of us in bad-mouthing it here on the lounge :-) Regards, Nish

              My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

              -- modified at 8:30 Friday 27th January, 2006

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              Eytukan
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              ahhh.. what an explanation!, quite philosophical!!:-O

              VuNic

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              • N Nish Nishant

                Elaine, Nearly every married man would advise a single guy not to get married, but at the same time they continue to remain married. When I was running around trying to buy a car here, because the cold was too unbearable for a "pedestrian/public-transit" way of life, nearly everyone here advised me not to get a car, and that I should wait till summer - but everyone who advised me had a car(or cars), and wouldn't go one day without it. It's the same with VS 2005. Almost all of us (self included) who've been cribbing here about how it's slow, how something is broken etc. will continue to use it. None of us (or very very few of us) would go back to 2003. So, do the right thing - install 2005, and after you do that, you can join the rest of us in bad-mouthing it here on the lounge :-) Regards, Nish

                My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

                -- modified at 8:30 Friday 27th January, 2006

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                Albert Pascual
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                What kind of car did you buy? Al

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                  What kind of car did you buy? Al

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Albert Pascual wrote:

                  What kind of car did you buy?

                  Hyundai Elantra - 2000 model. Regards, Nish

                  My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

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                    Albert Pascual wrote:

                    What kind of car did you buy?

                    Hyundai Elantra - 2000 model. Regards, Nish

                    My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

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                    Albert Pascual
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                    When I moved to the US in 2000 I purchased a 12 year old Ford Mustang! Coming from Europe that was the car to buy! You should buy a Canadian car .... wait ... never mind. After I drove it to the ground, I purchased a BIG SUV! Al

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                    • P Paul Watson

                      VA or VS2005? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                      Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                      VS2005 of course. VA is about as stable as they come. :) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                      • L Lost User

                        BTW, I found a nasty resource editor bug in VS2005 the other day - basically, trying to change the language of a resource to "English (USA)" adds a duff entry to the .rc file, so it won't compile! Waiting for SP1 is probably a good idea.

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                        So I heard. The word "eek!" springs to mind. :~ Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                        • N Nish Nishant

                          Paul Watson wrote:

                          we get VS2005 in our MSDN sub

                          Do you have separate subs for you and Brian? or do you both use the DVDs from that one single sub? I found out a while ago that an MSDN sub is for a single developer - so if you both are using it, technically it'd fall under piracy. Most people don't know this I think. Many small companies in India use 1 sub with 5-6 devs. Regards, Nish

                          My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

                          -- modified at 9:35 Friday 27th January, 2006

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                          Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                          Many small companies in India use 1 sub with 5-6 devs.

                          Not just India. I know of a lot of UK companies that use 1 sub for a number of developers. Not to mention these developers also then install the tools on their home machines. I'm very surprised that Microsoft haven't put a stop to this practise. Mind you I guess the more people that are using MS Development tools, the applications available for Windows. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

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                            I haven't noticed the runtime is slower, but the IDE is slower, made up for by really great Intellisense, and debugging is really doggy. If you're debugging, just have one or two files open, otherwise the IDE puts little lock icons on each file's tab and then removes them, for EVERY single step. With 9 or 10 tabbed files, it takes more time rendering the stupid tabs than it does stepping though the code, and I have a pretty zippy machine. If it helps any, I first created a completely separate project tree and tested the build and exe under VS2005 (all WinForm stuff, no ASP.NET). Some deprecated functions, but nothing that really broke. That was a good sign. I killed a few annoying things, like that stupid dialog popping up when you hit Alt-Tab (thanks to everyone who showed me how), and things like MyXaml and AUT run fine. Actually, .NET 2.0 has reflection performance improvements (think XAML). So, after proving it was a stable enough platform for what I do, there were the motivations: Some cool stuff in .NET 2.0 (compression, AutoSize property on controls, other useful classes) and in particular, there are methods like "Try...", so instead of first asking if something exists and then getting it, or getting it and catching a possible exception, you can use "try" and get bool return plus, if successful, the return value. Great for containers and things like conversions. Especially conversions, because you couldn't know if the conversion would throw an exception without parsing the item you're converting to/from yourself! Seemed stupid, since obviously the conversion routine knows, but would throw an exception. So, fewer exceptions being handled means faster code. And then there's C# 2.0, mainly generics. Not nearly as useful as templates, but strongly typed containers are great. More robust code, fewer runtime "can't convert from Foo to Bar" errors, and so forth. I haven't gotten into anonymous methods and I doubt I'll really ever use nullable types, but different strokes for different folks, right? The downside is I now have a lot of legacy code that while it runs fine, uses .NET 1.1 collections--a thorn, as it were. We need a C# 1.0 to C# 2.0 converter! And NDoc doesn't work with generics, and I had to download the source and compile it under 2.0 to get it to parse 2.0 assemblies, and I have no idea whether NDoc will ever support 2.0 because the primary developer, Kevin, is rather busy. So, that leaves me or someone else to do it, or wait for some other free/commercial product. Fu

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                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            And then there's C# 2.0, mainly generics. Not nearly as useful as templates

                            Templates are more powerful but generics should be good enough for most things, especially when supplemented with the PowerCollections library.

                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            So, that leaves me or someone else to do it, or wait for some other free/commercial product.

                            There is a commercial doc tool available. I forget the name.

                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            Funny how Microsoft hasn't done it.

                            Yes, they seem to have cloned evertything else! Kevin

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                              BTW, I found a nasty resource editor bug in VS2005 the other day - basically, trying to change the language of a resource to "English (USA)" adds a duff entry to the .rc file, so it won't compile! Waiting for SP1 is probably a good idea.

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                              The same happens when adding a condition to the resource. I like to have two version blocks, one for debug and another for non-debug builds. Compiles fine, but the resource editor dies when opening the resources for edit. Gavin

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                              • M Michael P Butler

                                Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                Many small companies in India use 1 sub with 5-6 devs.

                                Not just India. I know of a lot of UK companies that use 1 sub for a number of developers. Not to mention these developers also then install the tools on their home machines. I'm very surprised that Microsoft haven't put a stop to this practise. Mind you I guess the more people that are using MS Development tools, the applications available for Windows. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

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                                As you can read here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/faq/default.aspx[^] you are allowed to install and use the MSDN Software on your home pc - as long as nobody else is using it you can install it on as many machines as you like: "How many devices can I install the products on? In general, you can install MSDN software on any number of machines. However: Only persons with MSDN Subscription licenses can use the software on any of the machines Some products, such as Windows XP, require product activation, which may limit the number of machines on which you can install software. See the section on Product Activation for more information. If you are using Office for business purposes, you may only install on one machine. Many product keys are only effective for 10 activations. An additional product key may be requested by calling MSDN customer service at the numbers listed at MSDN Subscriber Downloads Support. "

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