Why would any NOT want to use Visual Studio?

Am I the only person who prefers creating makefiles and using the command line? I guess I started coding on the PSP and there was no IDE for that, everything was makefile and command line which may explain why I feel more at home doing that. It does come in handy when making your own OS too, can't be afraid to dabble in a makefile and sort out linkers, make shell scripts to package everything and create bootable ISOs and so on ;)

I have to admit though, I've recently been learning DirectX and it's nice to be able to just hit F7 and have all the code done before my eyes!
 
Love VS. Used 2005, 2008 and 2010. 2010 is brilliant. I'd say though, get a SSD - I find VS slow when editing the GUI, especially if its a particularly large form or you're compiling a large project. The SSD makes a HUGE difference.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
I've just looked at the differences between CodeRush and ReSharper... CodeRush looks good, but as I am used to ReSharper, according to the posts I've seen, it'll probably annoy me?
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You can turn off a lot of the graphics stuff in CR, I flit between the two CR has a better test runner, renames, navigate and templates. R# has more refactoring and Linq suggest stuff in 5 is quite cool along with the dotCover beta stuff.

There isn't much in it and if you've already invested in learning the one I don't see the point in relearning in the other. I do training courses on both so I'm quite comfortable with them both.
 
Auraomega said:
Am I the only person who prefers creating makefiles and using the command line? I guess I started coding on the PSP and there was no IDE for that, everything was makefile and command line which may explain why I feel more at home doing that. It does come in handy when making your own OS too, can't be afraid to dabble in a makefile and sort out linkers, make shell scripts to package everything and create bootable ISOs and so on ;)

I have to admit though, I've recently been learning DirectX and it's nice to be able to just hit F7 and have all the code done before my eyes!
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I can do all of that stuff and have done in the past but I'm far too lazy and I would rather be writing code than faffing about with project structure/build issues so IDE all the way for me.
 
I might check out CR when I get the chance, probably at home I'll give the trial a whirl. Better test runner sounds good, the one in ReSharper is a bit of a bloater. :)
 
I would think price is the only reason, I've tried other IDEs for extended periods of time but I always end up going back to Visual Studio (for C++ and C# anyway). When I have to work on OSX with XCode for maintaining a few iPhone applications it's actually painful, it makes you realise how good Visual Studio is (although XCode is probably the worst IDE I've ever used).

The only bad thing about it is intellisense has made me lazy, I doubt I could code in C# without it now :o.

_TubbZ_ said:
aah theres your problem - don't test. Its boring anyways ;)
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I hope that was a joke (it's hard to tell, a lot of people actually do think like that) :(.
 
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After dabbling a tiny bit with VS 2005, a fair bit with VS 2008 and nearly a year's worth of VS 2010 (from beta versions) it really is such an enjoyable IDE once you know where everything is and exactly what features it brings to the table (as it were). I love it :)

I agree that the price on the various editions is ridiculous though, especially Ultimate - I suppose Microsoft need to make money some way seeing as they don't sell expensive hardware like some well-known fruit company :D

Luckily we get the Action Pack subscription at work that just about covers our developers licences.
 
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