Re: VS 2005 - Beta testers - were there any?

No thanks -- but there lies the problem, those of us that are deep into many
large projects with real client $$$ on the line that push and push the
platform are not likely to have any time to report 100's even 1000's of
issues. And I believe this is exactly the problem I'm seeing in the
released VS 2005 -- it was Beta tested on a ad-hoc type basis with
developers that had time on their hands but no real scale -- where large
scale project testing was tossed in favor of smaller "focused" solutions
testing. It is also very apparent that large projects were NOT migrated
from VS 2003 to VS 2005 while in Beta -- the migration bugs/issues alone are
staggering.

It is as if Microsoft think that all developers using .NET platforms only
code "enterprise" component solutions with a few web service here and there
or just a handful of user control with a few web pages and toss in a class
library or two. It is as if they feel that a large solution should not
exist. As I proceed it is more likely that I'm going to move to Java for
web development, still retain my existing web services, and go with C++ for
all other functionality I need to build at a client level.

My bottom line, it was my fault "believing" that VS2005 was the light at the
end of the tunnel and that migration from VS2003 would be easy and all other
issues with VS2003 would be resolved in VS2005. VS2005 does have some great
features, but if they don't work right or cause major performance problems
in large solutions, what's the point?? Since VS 2005 still requires me to
use JavaScript to get some things done, I may as well just go with full
blown Java development. IMHO Microsoft are a lost company right now and
their stock would see to indicate the same. From what I've used of the
Vista beta I'm not seeing the a big revenue generator -- I would guess that
game development and XBOX 360 is what is keeping MS alive (along with their
huge cash reserve).

Rob.


"Andrew McDonald" <myrmecophagavir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Rob R. Ainscough" <robains@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
I'm finding more and more difficult to justify VS 2005 as my development
platform, I continue to run into more an more problems especially on
large scale projects. Some of the obvious issues:

You could probably even have got in on the beta yourself, I'd certainly
suggest it in the future if you've got a big dependence on the platform.
You can still report the issues on the bugtracker and they might get fixed
in the service packs:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/

--
Andrew



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