Re: Visual Studio 2005 Classview

Compared to VS.NET, VS 2005 is an improvment. I hated VS.NET. I practically
skipped upgrading to it. It was slow and extremely annoying in the way the
windows refused to stay where I put them. However, I upgraded to VS 2005.

Is there any reason to upgrade? From VS.NET, yes. VS 2005 is the same thing,
but a bit improved. From VS 6? Sad to say this, but no. The compiler is
slower, the IDE is MUCH slower, and there are WAY too many options, many of
them for all the other languages that have been bundled into it.

When I want to search my codebase, I use VS 6 because that's how bad the new
search interface is. When I want to add a new function, I type it in by
hand, because the new Add Function dialog is a complicated and slow mess.

The advantages to VS 2005 for a VS programmer?

1. You feel like you are using the new stuff
2. Intellisense is marginally improved, it now works with more objects than
before
3. Brighter colours
4. You can use MSDN help from the website from within the IDE

The disadvantages?

1. Everything is slow, even on my 3.2Ghz machine with 1GB of RAM
2. Compiling is slow
3. Classview is totally impractical and destroys the visual structure of
your code
4. Backward compatibility is horrible. Once it takes you in, it is difficult
to go back to VS6
5. Old code is now constantly complaining about insecure functions
6. Multimedia programming is now totally confused. DirectShow is available
in different SDKs in different versions, and it takes some days to properly
mix everything to use the latest multimedia SDKs
7. Search is with the options hidden in a very strange manner, leading to a
feeling that you are not searching where you want to search
8. If you open C# projects, it messes up your VC IDE
9. The properties window is now no longer a popup like before. Terrible to
use
10. Oh yeah, and as I was just writing this text, the IDE disappeared.

Visual Studio Team, you produced a bad product. The focus was just so wrong.
Things were just dumped into the application that _slowed_ development. Get
that, when I program, I want to go where I want to as fast as possible.
VS.NET and VS 2005 have slowed me down. This is not because I am not used to
them - I have been using 2005 for 2 months already, so I'm used to it by
now. And in my opinion, VS6 is the better development tool.

Regards,
Mark.
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Essien Research & Development
Harbigstr. 14.
14055, Berlin.
Germany.
http://www.essien.de


"M" <a@xxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:uXLN%23iwCGHA.412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I haven't installed VS2005 yet, although I have the disks. I may not.
>
> Tell me. From the perspective of a C++ programmer, are there any
> compelling reasons to upgrade? Better compiler performance/generated code;
> some awesome new UI feature that'll improve my productivity; anything at
> all?
>
> I understand that I'd be able to build both desktop and PDA binaries w/
> native code from within a single UI, but I really don't consider the
> current arrangement (separate eVC and VS 2K3) to be a great handicap. I'm
> undecided as to whether or not that is a sufficient reason to even install
> it.
>
>
>
> "Mark Essien" <look@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43b16caf$0$3812$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I cannot stand this new look classview any longer. I'm a quick adopter of
>>new technologies, and I've used this new classview look for the past 2
>>months, and have come to the decision : it is less effective and leads to
>>disorganised code.
>>
>> How do I switch back to the tradditional classview? If I cannot, I will
>> downgrade my Visual Studio. The entire UI for Visual Studio 2005 is
>> totally brain-dead, unintuitive and extremely clunky.
>>
>> Regards.
>> Mark.
>>
>
>


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