Re: VS2005 and VS 6.0

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But it sucks for .NET work also!
joe

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:32:04 +1000, Ian Semmel <isemmelNOJUNK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Daniel James wrote:
In article news:<b1et82lnidq6ipumdefn95p5l4gsv15bbg@xxxxxxx>, Joseph M.
Newcomer wrote:

This whole problem arose because Microsoft trusted the GUI design to an
incompetent twit ...

[snip]

... demonstrate conclusively that VS.NET sucks.


<smile> Nicely put, Joe. I've archived your posting ...

I do think that, in addition to the points you make, some part of the new Lack
Of Usefulness feature in VS200x is due to the fact that MS decided that they
could get away with one IDE/toolset to support a variety of more and less
functional languages, so everything is hampered by a need to support the
lowest common denominator.

Beyond that it's just crap design.

I think this is the nub of the problem. MS designed an interface for .NET
Designer stuff and then tried to shoe-horn MFC and C++ environments into it.

A much better solution would have been to keep the products separate ie a new
version developed from VC6 for unmanaged code, and VS.NET for C#, VB etc.

This, of course, would have reduced the use of .NET which is what MS don't want.
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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