It is not a question of who have been around longer than the other. Visual Studio is a brutal development tools. I have been working in several for year and Visual Studio is probably the most effective. The debugging features are better than any other. In term of functionality, I am afraid I don't think Microsoft are leading edge. The Form designer particularly was really bad until lately. What I still can't stand in Visual Studio is their way to open the form designer and source in two different tabs. I prefer by far the way Delphi does it. -- modified at 5:07 Thursday 6th April, 2006

I was speaking about the size sorry I meant Is that because Visual Studio expects and run with other dlls that the objects code is smaller. For the speed aspect, I am not worried by a 10% difference in speed. I would be more if it was memory waste. Algorithm makes the difference. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/macmahon.asp[^]

> GCC on Win32 produced release code about 10x as large as VS.NET but which executed 1/3rd faster!! Out of curiosity, is that because Visual Studio expects and run with other dlls ? I mean MSVCRT.DLL for example. Did you try to compare the dll that the program link to ? BTW: I like this sort of article where we discuss facs and not 'near religious' programming beliefs.

For info, I personally used a software called 'Wink' in the past. It was working quite well and was entirely free. It also generate a flash SWF file that you can embed in your application or within a webpage or a help system. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/[^]