Re: does VS C++ 2005 actually work????
- From: "Sgt. York" <york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:23:38 -0700
Yeah. Well, our company got the 90-day trial DVD and three of us volunteered to install the beast for a trial run. We proceeded to import several MFC projects originating from vs.net 2003. In return we were bombed with warnings about the c functions (which is condescending---we know the risk but chose to take it anyway, stop pestering us) and intellisense only worked sometimes (even after rebuilding it numerous times). In fact, I personally found intellisense failing far more often than it ever did in 2003 and given its new, even more enormous size, you'd think nothing would escape it.
This is a paraphrase (we had many other issues), but in the end we opted not to upgrade. Admittedly we are a c++ shop that is still not impressed with the evangelical attitude of MS toward .NET (we are also cross-platform), but the whole "feel" of VS 2005 was one of "yeah, this great .NET tool still does some incidental c++ on the side." No thanks, Microsoft.
Tom Serface wrote:
I also didn't experience any problems. I've been using it for many months now full time and it has worked fine. You could try totally uninstalling it and reinstalling just to make sure something didn't go whacky during installation..
Tom
"Ian" <Ian00Bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:LUFjg.23372$U84.473812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI recently purchased Microsoft VS 2005 and just cannot seem to get it working.
1. I tried converting a VS 2002 solution to VS 2005. It took a while to realize there is a bug in Intellisense. The only solution was to disable Intellisense.
2. It seems class view has been rendered inoperable now that Intellisense has been disabled. So this means browsing by namespaces and classes is not possible.
3. I tried debugging the application but it seems the debugger cannot find certain debug libraries such as 'MFC80UD.DLL'. I posted a message and hope someone will know what is happening. I reviewed a number of postings which seemed to suggest it may be necessary to modify the manifest file. I also reviewed several postings regarding redistributable files. But is this all really necessary? After all, I'm just trying debug the application using the IDE.
4. So I downloaded the sample program DBViewer to see if I could run the debugger on this application. The compiler skipped the entire set of files and refused to build it.
I am very disappointed with this product and feel like I've wasted my time and money on it. If asked, I would strongly discourage anyone from buying to VS 2005.
I really don't know what question to ask at this point. If I cannot even compile and debug a sample program provided by Microsoft then where do I begin???? I've uninstalled and reinstalled VS several times.
Are there any Microsoft folks willing to take a stab at helping me out. I suppose if I really wanted a working solution, I should have paid several thousands of dollars for a support contract....
My system: 2.26GHz Pentium 4, 2gig RAM, WinXP Pro, VS 2005 Pro
Ian
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