Re: Visual Studio SP1

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From: Joseph M. Newcomer (newcomer_at_flounder.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:22:55 -0400

Define "unusable". Certainly the GUI sucks, representing an amateur hack job on an
interface (one done without any consideration of the problem domain, done by someone who
doesn't understand user interfaces). But I've not experienced any bugs, although I only
use it for two projects right now (both of which require VS7 features not available on
VS6). But MFC is substantially improved, and the compiler is excellent. You just can't get
at them humanely.

Note to Microsoft: the contracts I get now explicitly state that "Work will be done in
Visual Studio 6". Nobody wants to move to VS7. My stock contract says "In the latest
version of Visual Studio", and that is no longer acceptable to people who need to get real
work done. They attach an addendum state explicitly that only VS6 will be used for
development.

Is anyone at Microsoft getting this message? This is a product that is being seriously
rejected by the marketplace! (Even the project I'm using VS7 for is a pain; the client
ranted at me for several hours a couple weeks ago about forcing them to move to such an
abysmal environment, just so we could use features that should have been made available in
a VS6-compatible library, so the programmer-hostile GUI would not have to be used! And
this is a client that is essentially a non-Microsoft shop, and has little experience with
VS6. They instantly recognize VS6 to be superior to VS7 in its UI design, and that says a
lot)
                                        joe

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:43:12 +0100, "JoeB"
<joe____A_A_A_A_A_ANoSpamPleaseThankyou_@kybert.com> wrote:

>Im talking about VS.net 2003, i bought it a while ago and uninstalled it
>because its far too unusable.
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>Im not using VS.net 2002 which is more stable, but still very buggy.
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>joe
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>"Dmitri Zhukov" <dimazhn@yandex.ru> wrote in message
>news:c50seh$lkm$1@alpha2.radio-msu.net...
>> why asking?
>> Do u found any bugs? And which Visual Studio are you talking about?
>>
>> "JoeB" <joe____A_A_A_A_A_ANoSpamPleaseThankyou_@kybert.com>
>> сообщил/сообщила
>> в новостях следующее: news:OmZecnJHEHA.3276@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Any ideas when it will be avaliable?
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Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@flounder.com
Web: http://www.flounder.com
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