Re: Java and .NET (no Flames Pls)

From: Mike Newton (MNewton_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:06:46 -0500

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
> Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP] <onyxkirx@--NOSPAM--comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>>I wonder how many of them have used Eclipse for long enough to get used
>>>to it. It took me a while to get used to VS.NET, and I like it more
>>>than I did to start with. I still miss incremental compilation,
>>>intellisense that can display more than one overload at a time,
>>>compile-on-save, the Eclipse project system, refactoring, contextual
>>>diffs, organise imports, a decent source-safe plug-in (ironically!)...
>>
>>Well, incremental compilation never mattered much to me, for whatever reason
>>most of the mistakes I make are truely egregious, like
>>
>>Console.WrtieLine("Whatever"):
>>
>>Which the parser picks up, or ones which aren't really compliation errors.
>>Still, I can see the benifits.
>
>
> Note that I don't mean "as you type" error detection - I mean actual
> compilation. In Eclipse, by default it compiles the code every time you
> hit save. If VS.NET did that, it would be a pain in the neck because it
> would recompile a whole load of stuff which hadn't changed
>
That's not exactly true. You can set projects to be compiled
incrementally, and csc will only compile those tidbits that have been
changed.

Granted, this isn't the default, but it *does* exist. Check out a
rather large library like iTextSharp, which is set to incremental build.
  The first compile is long, but subsequent compiles are very fast (and
I have made a few minor tweaks).

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