VS 2005 just rocks my world
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I've been doing C++ and Java for years now, but I recently got a new position writing a new Windows application from scratch, with no legacy code required. So I got my hands on VS2005, and man, I'm totally impressed, especially with C++/CLI. We have a pretty good 3D scene graph library, which is all C based, and being able to use that directly from a mixed mode C++ assembly, and then use that in a c# application, AND debug across language and MSIL/asm boundaries, well, it just blows me away. :cool: It is such a breath of fresh air compared to doing C++ and Java development. Having to use two sometimes three debuggers at once, and using JNI to brdige the Java / C gap, this is like a handful of minty Tic Tacs first thing in the morning. Also having used Delphi/C++ Builder in the past, this is the first Visual Studio that stats making as much sense as they did. Despite a fairly constant stream of well founded criticism about the IDE, just wanted point out it does some very amazing things. And a big heartfelt thanks to all the CPians, especially Nish for the C++/CLI articles. - Phil
So, from all of the comments on this thread, I get the following message: - For all of my native code, I should stick to using Visual Studio 2003 Pro. - For any new C++/CLI work, I can use my Visual Studio 2005 Express and be happy. :) I'm working on a big MFC project I've converted over to VS 2003, and now that I've bought Ref++ to do some :cool: refactoring, I finding everything works very smoothly. I sure find it easier to work with a large project in VS 2003 then I did in C++Builder 5. I do intend to do some C++Builder-like RAD development that doesn't have to be native, so I bought "Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 2.0 Platform" which seems like an informative book so far. Now I just have to find the time to finish reading the book and do up a proper C++/CLI application. :(
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Pete Madden wrote:
I never really understood the concept of people feeling great about themselves coding in Notepad
Ditto. I was talking to an IBM guy who said he did almost all his C coding in notepad, and I chuckled. When I realized he was serious, I was all :wtf:
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Judah Himango wrote:
I was talking to an IBM guy who said he did almost all his C coding in notepad, and I chuckled. When I realized he was serious, I was all
I used to like coding in vi and compile each .c seperately in GCC when I was a student. It made me understand a lot what was going on there. But now I'm too spoiled with Visual Studio.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Both. They have deprecated sprintf and friends, but also std::copy
you are kidding me? why? why would you do that? -- The Obliterator
Buffer overruns. They've replaced them with similar functions that also take the size of the destination buffer as an argument. - Phil