Why use Visual Studio?
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In my project I am using Visual Studio and SQL Server. During my project review, the reviewers asked me that "Why u preferred Visual Studio,ASP.NET and SQL Server and trying to waste money on buying them?" "Why didn't u go behing free and open source development options like using PHP/MySQL?" I could only reply with some features of Visual Studio. But I still doubt why Microsoft is selling things when the powerful PHP is free. How should I reply to the reviewing team? Please give me a good explanation.
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In my project I am using Visual Studio and SQL Server. During my project review, the reviewers asked me that "Why u preferred Visual Studio,ASP.NET and SQL Server and trying to waste money on buying them?" "Why didn't u go behing free and open source development options like using PHP/MySQL?" I could only reply with some features of Visual Studio. But I still doubt why Microsoft is selling things when the powerful PHP is free. How should I reply to the reviewing team? Please give me a good explanation.
Well, they seem to be mistaking Visual Studio for a language. PHP is a language, while VS is an IDE. The key thing is that it is integrated, so you can do more than just edit source code in it; you can manage your databases, run unit tests, code coverage, profiling, metrics analysis, and so on in the IDE.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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In my project I am using Visual Studio and SQL Server. During my project review, the reviewers asked me that "Why u preferred Visual Studio,ASP.NET and SQL Server and trying to waste money on buying them?" "Why didn't u go behing free and open source development options like using PHP/MySQL?" I could only reply with some features of Visual Studio. But I still doubt why Microsoft is selling things when the powerful PHP is free. How should I reply to the reviewing team? Please give me a good explanation.
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In my project I am using Visual Studio and SQL Server. During my project review, the reviewers asked me that "Why u preferred Visual Studio,ASP.NET and SQL Server and trying to waste money on buying them?" "Why didn't u go behing free and open source development options like using PHP/MySQL?" I could only reply with some features of Visual Studio. But I still doubt why Microsoft is selling things when the powerful PHP is free. How should I reply to the reviewing team? Please give me a good explanation.
Simple answer - productivity. If you spend $10k on development tools and they save you 2 hours a day in productivity then if you do the math there is a break even point not too far down the track, at which point it is cheaper to use the expensive tools. You can use notepad and write machine code for free but almost noone does.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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In my project I am using Visual Studio and SQL Server. During my project review, the reviewers asked me that "Why u preferred Visual Studio,ASP.NET and SQL Server and trying to waste money on buying them?" "Why didn't u go behing free and open source development options like using PHP/MySQL?" I could only reply with some features of Visual Studio. But I still doubt why Microsoft is selling things when the powerful PHP is free. How should I reply to the reviewing team? Please give me a good explanation.
Visual Studio Express editions are free. You need to look at the development team and the tools they are familiar with. If they are familiar with VS then you need to consider what are the appropriate VS licenses for each member. If the team are PHP developers then VS is a total waste of time. Find out what tools the development team are familiar with and use them. A cost analysis of retraining the team might be a sobering reality for the reviewers.