Re: In VC++7.1 How do I...
From: Joseph M. Newcomer (newcomer_at_flounder.com)
Date: 04/17/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:14:49 -0400
Yes, that is a wonderful feature. It catches bugs that VS6 doesn't, and I've seen a lot of
truly weird bugs that either fail to compile with VC7 or get runtime checks that VC6
wouldn't do. Everything is improved except the GUI. Unfortunately, that's really, really
important.
joe
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:21:19 GMT, Ian Semmel <isemmel@removejunkmailrocketcomp.com.au>
wrote:
>Yes. they should have released a VS7 upgrade to VS6 and left the .NET stuff to a
>separate product. Of course, this would mean that nobody would be forced to
>install .NET which I think goes against the idea MS has to force everyone down
>this path.
>
>There is a good feature in VC7 which I found when I ran one of my programs
>through it the other day which was reporting local stack corruption on exitting
>a function (I was adressing beyond the end of a local array).
>
>I cannot use VS7 for real work however. I get sick of watching an hour-glass
>cursor when I press F3 to get the next occurrence of a Find. And why does VS7
>build the project modules in reverse alphabetical order ?
>
>Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
>> I've seen numerous requests for this. It would make a lot of sense. There would still be
>> some problems with VS6 not supporting some of the new MFC features (I don't know how
>> "hardwired" some of that information is), but it would be such a distinct improvement over
>> VS7 that VS7 sales would drop to zero. As opposed to the nearly-zero they are now.
>>
>> I've not had the nerve to try replacing the VS6 compiler binaries with VS7. If someone has
>> a machine they don't mind possibly screwing up to do this experiment, it could be rather
>> interesting...and you could become an Instant Hero if you determine it is actually
>> possible!
>> joe
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:20:36 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Add updated MFC/RTL/ATL/STL, and it would be a product of choice for C++
>>>developpers.
>>>
>>><Bob Moore> wrote in message
>>>news:69i8705t1vnjn3afldd7bqbvijjsbniv95@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>On 6 Apr 2004 18:43:12 -0700, Tom Bassel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Has anyone asked MS to make a point release of VC6 that includes,
>>>>>at the least, an updated compiler?
>>>>
>>>>I think the problem is that such a product would be _embarassingly_
>>>>successful.
>>>>
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