Farewell VS2005
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Must be nice. We still use VS2003 on a daily basis, as we have a huge code base built with it. We don't have the time to convert to VS2008. It's all C++/MFC code, and there are relatively few breaking changes, but we would still have to make all the changes complained about by the compiler (there are a bunch), and then do a complete regression test. Fortunately, all work on The Big New Thing™ is being done with VS2008. I'm going to advocate we switch that to VS2010 once it's released and appears stable (like in 2015).
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The main environment at my job is VB6, but we use Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 as well. Would be nice to move away from VB6, but I doubt that will happen for a while.
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
jsaindon wrote:
Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Yes, but for only one of my (MFC) freeware apps. Its conversion to .NET will also allow me to uninstall VS2005! /ravi
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
I have the 3.5's somewhere.
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
jsaindon wrote:
It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release.
The good thing is, our development tools age along with us. So the older we get, we don't really notice how much slower the tools get. About a year ago I had to install VC6 on a virtual machine to resurrect an old project. It was so fast, I couldn't keep up! :rolleyes: Marc
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jsaindon wrote:
It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release.
The good thing is, our development tools age along with us. So the older we get, we don't really notice how much slower the tools get. About a year ago I had to install VC6 on a virtual machine to resurrect an old project. It was so fast, I couldn't keep up! :rolleyes: Marc
Totally ;) The tools seem to get chunkier as we move forward. But one line of LINQ = 10000+ lines of Assemby. My old Merlin compiler for the Commodore64 was *way* more responsive than VS, but the overall productivity you get is worth it. Ecconomies of scale!
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I have the 3.5's somewhere.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
Yes we do as in office everyday
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Totally ;) The tools seem to get chunkier as we move forward. But one line of LINQ = 10000+ lines of Assemby. My old Merlin compiler for the Commodore64 was *way* more responsive than VS, but the overall productivity you get is worth it. Ecconomies of scale!
jsaindon wrote:
Ecconomies of scale!
No wonder the world is suffering from massive debt! As a purely intellectual argument, I'm not convinced that my productivity has improved. Complexity has increased, the cost of a "solution" has increased, and from what I've experienced, the amount of time to produce the solution has increased as well. So overall, I think productivity is decreasing. :) And then, to throw in the philosophical question that nobody seems to ask, except for aging pundits (which perhaps I am one), is all this really necessary? Does it actually improve the quality of our lives? Marc
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
Yes. I am currently updating a COM component that is used by girly ASP.NET. Well, because if you want to write something that actually does something more than display HTML pages, you HAVE to use C. And I am pissed off at modern *programmers* using ASP calling themselves *programmers*. Surely these half-men could use some brain cells and stop calling themselves "programmers". Sorry about the rant.
this is this.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
The main environment at my job is VB6
LOL! I read that as "The main entertainment ..."
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
The main entertainment
Far from it I'm afraid... whenever I work with VB6, I am not amused.
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RichardM1 wrote:
The main entertainment
Far from it I'm afraid... whenever I work with VB6, I am not amused.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
whenever I work with VB6, I am not amused
FTFY.
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...Actually, I love working with VS2005 and VS2008. Especially WPF... I can get quite amused playing with that.
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The *real* question is, does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around) ;)
jsaindon wrote:
media laying around
I still do have the installation CDs for it.
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Actually, I love working with VS2005 and VS2008. Especially WPF... I can get quite amused playing with that.
I'm OK with any tool that does not get in my way, chronologically: SimScript, Turbo Pascal/C, ObjectiveC/AppBuilder(?), SmalTalk/V, Optima++/Power++, Delphi (3-7, not later), VS.NET. I've used others, but these were the best when I used them. But what interests me most is the problem, the more clever the required solution, the more fun.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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jsaindon wrote:
It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release.
The good thing is, our development tools age along with us. So the older we get, we don't really notice how much slower the tools get. About a year ago I had to install VC6 on a virtual machine to resurrect an old project. It was so fast, I couldn't keep up! :rolleyes: Marc
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jsaindon wrote:
does anyone still have VS6 installed on their machine (or even have the media laying around)
Yes, and Yes. It doesn't get open very often, and when it does it is just to view something I wrote in college.
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To view something I wrote in college, I would have to find one of these[^].
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To view something I wrote in college, I would have to find one of these[^].
Software Zen:
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Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
To view something I wrote in college, I would have to find one of these[^].
Sometimes I think I would have had more fun then.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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Well, it's Friday, and I'm doing some routine clean up at my desk and on my machine. In doing so, I finally made the decision to let go and uninstall VS2005. We've been on VS2008 happily now for over a year, every one of our solutions converted with very minimal effort and NO runtime issues. Microsoft does do a pretty good job in the development arena. It's amazing to me how much they can improve from release to release. I didn't think it could get much better than VS2003 (thinking back to the VS6/COM days)! But VS2005 (ultimately due to .NET 2.0) was a noticable step forward. Looking at the new VS2010RC, I am again impressed. Anyway...farewell VS2005. Is anyone else still using VS2005?
Just a note from my switch to VS2008... If you have an existing project that uses WSE3 services, you won't be able to generate WSE3 proxy classes automatically using VS2008. But you can still generate the proxy classes if you're just making small changes or adding new methods and such. There is a tool in the WSE3 package that will do 90% of the work for you, and a little minor surgery on the generated source gets you the other 10%. Of course this is a manual process so it can get tedious. If your architecture still uses WSE3 and you're looking at adding lots of new services, you're better off using WCF for the new services; or better yet, biting the bullet and converting everything over to WCF. Other than that, my conversion to 2008 went quite well too... Eric
