What's Better VC++6.0 or VC++.Net
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Cathy wrote: Does anyone know if you can install Visual Studio .NET on the same machine as VC++ 6.0? Will VC++ 6.0 still work the same? The combo seems to work fine for me.
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I'm glad you asked. VC++ 7 is a huge step backward. My complaints: - The Resource editor has serious bugs that make it very difficult to use (it shuts down the app, without saving files, if Add Resource is selected under some circumstances; and it refuses to oepn reousrce files if there are too many include directories). - Almost every operation has been moved around, changed a bit, and otherwise screwed up. What used to take one or two keystrokes now takes 3 or 4. A classic example - Find is now Alt E - F - F, rather than Alt-E - F, as in the old VC6 and Word. So I'm constatnly having to restart my Find operations. - ClassWizard is extremely hard to use, and in fact no longer exists as a separate entity. - Docking windows are screwy. They are much more flixible, but are uglier and harder to use. - The tree now tracks the selected file, which _seems_ like it might be neat; but since my project has about 20 different file folders, the net result is that I end up with almost all of the folders open when I surf through the project, rather than the ones I want open. And to add insult to injury.. it's no longer possible to collapse all child folders by collapsing the project folder; they all have to be collapsed individually. - The Open as Text option is well hidden, and the terminology used makes no sense (you are asked to a select a "program" to open the file with, even though what you're really doing is telling the dev environment how to treat the file.) - There's lots of pointless flashing as the mouse moves over things, in keeping with the decline in usability brought us by Win XP. - Two words: Dynamic Help. - And of course, VC6 macros and add-ins don't work, so we have to wait for the community to develop new versions.
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I just wanted to know from all those gurus of c++, thier opinion about the freedom one gets from migrating from vc6 to vc7. Does it always help to get into newer version if like the old one better.:confused: I have to check out other people's suggestion before i take yet another dive into a new IDE, so please help me. Ashok Singh
If you don't want to learn C#, write managed C++ or use MFC7, then why upgrade ? I'm liking VS.NET more and more - I use it at home during the evening, and VC6 at work. But then, I am interested in C#, I've only written a couple of C++ programs at home so far, all for CP articles. Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?! - Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002