Re: VS2008 vs VS2010, anyone used it?

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What "edit and continue" bug? It is working fine for me.

Really?
You can put a break point in your code, edit the code and insert an error anywhere, (forget a colon, to many brackets, whatever will cause an error), and then continue the compiler will tell you where and what the error code is?

I must say, I thought it was broken for everybody.

Well that sound quite different from "edit and continue" does only
work in rare cases. When I use edit and continue in debugging I
typically change only a small portion of code. When program
execution does not work I get an indication that some errors
where found (not which, correct) but as I made only small changes
it is typically not difficult to spot the error, like e.g. a missing
semicolon.

So, ok, it would be nice to get full error information as if you did
a true compile run, but there are other areas I find more important,
e.g. edit and continue working in x64 code - at least for managed
code it is not working.


Sorry, but discussing this particular bug was not the original intent of my post, so I did not do a full bug report here. I only mentioned it because someone asked for an example of a 'glaring bug', (who, apparently, only applies to amateurs. Professional should just shut up and accept it).

I did not start this thread to discuss the various bugs Microsoft is happy to leave behind, (because apparently they have so many other bugs to deal with).

There are many other threads discussing the various bugs in Visual Studio.

My original post was a "Has anyone used VS2010 yet? Any good/bad comments about it? Shall we stay clear of it or is it worth the trouble?"

Regards,

Simon
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