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Can someone tell me why should I upgrade from VS 2008 to 2010 or 2012

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  • V Vasily Tserekh

    I have been using Visual Studio 2008 for a long time, recently I made a project and I had (because the customer want to) to 2010, The fonts were terrible and I was a lot slower, (I have corei3 2 gb pc), can someone please tell me a reason to upgrade, please a good and logical reason. thanks in advance

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    So you can hate them with the rest of us...

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    • L lewax00

      Kenneth Haugland wrote:

      I though C++ used the .NET library, no?

      Only if you're doing C++/CLI, you can still do pure native C++.

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      Kenneth Haugland
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      I thought you only used pure C++ with driver development or other specific hardware stuff. Anyways I also though some of the .NET libraries came from Intels core? When do you really want to use pure C++?

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        I thought you only used pure C++ with driver development or other specific hardware stuff. Anyways I also though some of the .NET libraries came from Intels core? When do you really want to use pure C++?

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        Drivers/hardware/other low level stuff is one reason. Native code is also commonly used for graphical applications, e.g. DirectX/OpenGL. Or code that can be compiled and run on multiple platforms. There are plenty of reasons, the basic rule is "use the language that's right for the job".

        Kenneth Haugland wrote:

        Anyways I also though some of the .NET libraries came from Intels core?

        I've never heard that, so I have no idea. But .Net libraries run on the CLR, which is written in a native language I would think.

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          Drivers/hardware/other low level stuff is one reason. Native code is also commonly used for graphical applications, e.g. DirectX/OpenGL. Or code that can be compiled and run on multiple platforms. There are plenty of reasons, the basic rule is "use the language that's right for the job".

          Kenneth Haugland wrote:

          Anyways I also though some of the .NET libraries came from Intels core?

          I've never heard that, so I have no idea. But .Net libraries run on the CLR, which is written in a native language I would think.

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          Kenneth Haugland
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          Looks like the bought some code from intel inseted: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8870442/how-is-math-pow-implemented-in-net-framework/8870593#8870593[^] My bad :)

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          • K Kenneth Haugland

            So automated parallel is just available in C++, that sounds strange, I though C++ used the .NET library, no? Than it seems a little strange not to include the function in the higher languages or?

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            Espen Harlinn
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            Kenneth Haugland wrote:

            I though C++ used the .NET library, no?

            Usually not, that would be C++/CLI

            Kenneth Haugland wrote:

            Than it seems a little strange not to include the function in the higher languages or?

            Higher languages?

            Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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            • E Espen Harlinn

              Kenneth Haugland wrote:

              I though C++ used the .NET library, no?

              Usually not, that would be C++/CLI

              Kenneth Haugland wrote:

              Than it seems a little strange not to include the function in the higher languages or?

              Higher languages?

              Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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              Kenneth Haugland
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              Well I meant High-level programming language but was thinking of C# and VB, but I guess C++ fits in too. But I think I can classify C# as Higher than C++ :-D

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              • K Kenneth Haugland

                Well I meant High-level programming language but was thinking of C# and VB, but I guess C++ fits in too. But I think I can classify C# as Higher than C++ :-D

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                Espen Harlinn
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                Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                But I think I can classify C# as Higher than C++

                How?

                Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                • E Espen Harlinn

                  Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                  But I think I can classify C# as Higher than C++

                  How?

                  Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                  Kenneth Haugland
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                  My understanding of C++ is that its mostly used for a lot of detailed oriented tasks, while C# and VB does not have the easy ability to every thing, so a Higher level languange that is more removed from the assembly code.

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                  • K Kenneth Haugland

                    My understanding of C++ is that its mostly used for a lot of detailed oriented tasks, while C# and VB does not have the easy ability to every thing, so a Higher level languange that is more removed from the assembly code.

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                    Espen Harlinn
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                    To me a higher level language supports higher level constructs, and the development of such constructs, enabling the developer to clearly formulate a program through code. Doing this in C++ is usually easier than in c#. What C++ lacks is extensive standard runtime libraries ...

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                      Parallel C#[^], not sure how far they've got though

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                      That looks very interesting :)

                      "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                      • V Vasily Tserekh

                        I have been using Visual Studio 2008 for a long time, recently I made a project and I had (because the customer want to) to 2010, The fonts were terrible and I was a lot slower, (I have corei3 2 gb pc), can someone please tell me a reason to upgrade, please a good and logical reason. thanks in advance

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                        Title says it all. It was the best version.

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                        • E Espen Harlinn

                          To me a higher level language supports higher level constructs, and the development of such constructs, enabling the developer to clearly formulate a program through code. Doing this in C++ is usually easier than in c#. What C++ lacks is extensive standard runtime libraries ...

                          Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                          Kenneth Haugland
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                          Eh oh, I was bussy doing this: Mario5[^] Addictice game I must say :-D

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                          Doing this in C++ is usually easier than in c#

                          My take is this: I think C# is faster to program in, and C++ takes longer time, but C# implements more general methods and can therefor be slower than C++. But then again, you could do assembely to have complete control but it will take ages. Remember that newer programming langauges dont really allow you to do anything that couldnt be done on a commandore 64, but It would take a lot longer time to do it :-D (A little over the top but still ;) )

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                            Eh oh, I was bussy doing this: Mario5[^] Addictice game I must say :-D

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                            Doing this in C++ is usually easier than in c#

                            My take is this: I think C# is faster to program in, and C++ takes longer time, but C# implements more general methods and can therefor be slower than C++. But then again, you could do assembely to have complete control but it will take ages. Remember that newer programming langauges dont really allow you to do anything that couldnt be done on a commandore 64, but It would take a lot longer time to do it :-D (A little over the top but still ;) )

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                            Espen Harlinn
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                            Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                            I think C# is faster to program in

                            MS does not provide a C++ library suitable for RAD in C++ like C++ Builder[^], but we can use C++/CLI for the GUI part. Personally I find various pieces of the C++/CLI extensions to C++ "unnatural", so I do the .Net part in C# and use C++ when the benefits of the language justifies this. C++ is a more powerful language than C#, facilitating good abstractions, without necessarily sacrificing performance - so I often do the actual problem solving in C++ - not only becasue the resulting program is faster, but also because I'm able to get the job done faster, with less coding, in C++.

                            Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                              Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                              I think C# is faster to program in

                              MS does not provide a C++ library suitable for RAD in C++ like C++ Builder[^], but we can use C++/CLI for the GUI part. Personally I find various pieces of the C++/CLI extensions to C++ "unnatural", so I do the .Net part in C# and use C++ when the benefits of the language justifies this. C++ is a more powerful language than C#, facilitating good abstractions, without necessarily sacrificing performance - so I often do the actual problem solving in C++ - not only becasue the resulting program is faster, but also because I'm able to get the job done faster, with less coding, in C++.

                              Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                              Kenneth Haugland
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                              Never used C++ or C++\CLI for anything professional, so my experience comes from school projects, which is a long time ago. I heard simular statments about C++ and C# before by other people as well, meaning using C++ for functions and C# for presentation. Personally I really like the WPF and Silverlight with its XAML theme, and whenever I look at DirectX code I really get a big headache, as I see there would be a lot to learn :sigh: (So I dont think the CGAL library was programmed in C++ by accident ;) ) To this day I have not done any physics simulation that requires real time (or close to real time) prossecing, but I was thinking of writing a TLM[^] article on acousticv simultions, and real time graphics could be very useful then. Any tips as to what I should use for it? (perhaps I could try the NAvier-Stokes equation also :) ) BTE your like is broken, but I assume you mean this[^]?

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                                Never used C++ or C++\CLI for anything professional, so my experience comes from school projects, which is a long time ago. I heard simular statments about C++ and C# before by other people as well, meaning using C++ for functions and C# for presentation. Personally I really like the WPF and Silverlight with its XAML theme, and whenever I look at DirectX code I really get a big headache, as I see there would be a lot to learn :sigh: (So I dont think the CGAL library was programmed in C++ by accident ;) ) To this day I have not done any physics simulation that requires real time (or close to real time) prossecing, but I was thinking of writing a TLM[^] article on acousticv simultions, and real time graphics could be very useful then. Any tips as to what I should use for it? (perhaps I could try the NAvier-Stokes equation also :) ) BTE your like is broken, but I assume you mean this[^]?

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                                Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                                BTE your like is broken, but I assume you mean this[^]?

                                Thanks, fixed :-D

                                Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                                I was thinking of writing a TLM[^] article on acousticv simultions

                                I would love to see your take on that ... You don't really need to use the DirectX or OpenGL apis' directly - What's called a visual tree in WPF/SilverLight is often called a scene graph; so OpenSceneGraph:http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg should not be too unfamiliar.

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                                  Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                                  BTE your like is broken, but I assume you mean this[^]?

                                  Thanks, fixed :-D

                                  Kenneth Haugland wrote:

                                  I was thinking of writing a TLM[^] article on acousticv simultions

                                  I would love to see your take on that ... You don't really need to use the DirectX or OpenGL apis' directly - What's called a visual tree in WPF/SilverLight is often called a scene graph; so OpenSceneGraph:http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg should not be too unfamiliar.

                                  Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                                  Kenneth Haugland
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                                  The problem is to define the cells or connections points if you will, that would have color, tooltip, storage of all the matrix calculation in continous time etc. If you also add mouse down and mouse over you are usually in a lot of trouble simulation wise if you use shapes or UIElement. So I was thinking of using a bitmap picture for it, and separate it completely from the calculations. But then I could not easily do all the nice edition features, but still, I dont know of a faster way of showing simulations than that. I could in edit mode just calculate whitch cell got cliked but I dont know if that would be faster, proberbly though but I havent tried. As you understand its really at the thinking stage at the moment :)

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                                  • V Vasily Tserekh

                                    I have been using Visual Studio 2008 for a long time, recently I made a project and I had (because the customer want to) to 2010, The fonts were terrible and I was a lot slower, (I have corei3 2 gb pc), can someone please tell me a reason to upgrade, please a good and logical reason. thanks in advance

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                                    Wjousts
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                                    a) Because you employer will pay for it. b) Because your next employer will wonder why you are so far behind.

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                                    • K Kenneth Haugland

                                      The problem is to define the cells or connections points if you will, that would have color, tooltip, storage of all the matrix calculation in continous time etc. If you also add mouse down and mouse over you are usually in a lot of trouble simulation wise if you use shapes or UIElement. So I was thinking of using a bitmap picture for it, and separate it completely from the calculations. But then I could not easily do all the nice edition features, but still, I dont know of a faster way of showing simulations than that. I could in edit mode just calculate whitch cell got cliked but I dont know if that would be faster, proberbly though but I havent tried. As you understand its really at the thinking stage at the moment :)

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                                      Espen Harlinn
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                                      For WPF I'd go for a view model exposing only the data related to the visual elements, with an underlying "real model" for the calculations.

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                                        For WPF I'd go for a view model exposing only the data related to the visual elements, with an underlying "real model" for the calculations.

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                                        Kenneth Haugland
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                                        Well, I also though a 3D simulation of the Pressurewave would be cool: http://stuff.seans.com/2008/08/24/raindrop-animation-in-wpf/[^]

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                                          For WPF I'd go for a view model exposing only the data related to the visual elements, with an underlying "real model" for the calculations.

                                          Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. -- Mike Myatt

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                                          Kenneth Haugland
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                                          The problem with TLM is that you roughly speaking need 4 nodes per wavelength, and the human ear stops at 20 000 HZ, so thats my reason for wanting the Bitmap image.

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