Re: Who needs Tony Snow...

Karl E. Peterson wrote:
... when you have Rockford Lhotka, Billy Hollis, Bill Vaughn, and Kathleen
Dollard?

Bush should hire this group of kool-aid drinkers, eh?!


Dr. Dobb's | Visual Studio 2005: Unstable and Highly Recommended
http://ddj.com/dept/windows/186500706?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_Windows/.NET


I've been using VS2005 for 3 months or so. Prior to that I used VS 2003 (i still occasionally have to use it for maintanance). Prior to that I used vb6. After reading the article, I'd echo some of the statements. VS2005 is unstable and much slower than vs2003. However, I also don't know if I would go back. The reason for this are 2 features: Edit & Continue and Generics. E&C, even though the implementation is so weak compared to VB6, is still much better than no E&C at all. Generics eliminates the my primal need to create a strongly typed collections wrapper. Some of the other really cool features are debug visualizers, refactorings, code snippets (especially in c#). It would be tough to do without these in vs2003. I'd rather work around the vs2005 instability.


Every time I have to go back to VS 2003, I am stunned by how comparatively fast it is.

As for recommending it to other people - no, only to people I don't like. I am lucky in that I consult for a company that has a blanket MS support within 20 minutes on just about any issue. So basically everytime I have a problem, I just call my contact and a team of people researches problems for me.

I would also echo statements in this NG that all those interviewed have some type of financial interest (even if they don't fully realize it) in VS 2005 succedding.

Regards

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