VS.NET

[sans-hubris]

It certainly looks nice, but it's excruciatingly slow. Does anyone else have this problem with Visual Studio .NET?

PS My machine is not particularly slow, but it's not blazing fast either. It's a dual PII 300 w/512MB RAM, which should be plenty, I would think.

PPS I thought that changing the title might generate some responses on this thread.

I also realized that I miss a feature that I had from Emacs that I really like, and it's implementation is probably rather trivial, the ability to view two files at once. For example, in C or C++, being able to view the header file while editing the implementation, which is especially helpful with C++.

[stuka]

Don't know about VS.NET, but you can see both files at once if it's like VS 6....Open both files, then select either Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally from the Window menu.

[sans-hubris]

Originally posted by Stuka
Don't know about VS.NET, but you can see both files at once if it's like VS 6....Open both files, then select either Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally from the Window menu. I know about that for 6.0, but VS.NET is very different from 6.0 in a lot of ways.

[gish]

I love VS.NET.....just love it....trying to convice my company to migrate towards .net rather then develop new technologies in ASP 3.0...(which I HATE)

:)

[sans-hubris]

The only thing that I like from the new .NET Framework is C# and the CLI runtime. The idea of being able to use almost any OO language and have them all interact is definitely an interesting one. It's not revolutionary since it's all basically what Java was supposed to be.

Once I learn enough about it all, I want to make some contributions to Mono (http://www.go-mono.com). I just hope that .NET is as portable as it promises to be.

[gish]

remember it is in its early stages of life..there are still some bugs, features that need to be worked out along with several security issues!!..but all in all...I am very hopefull.....I as well love C#

[sicarius]

.NET is a great idea, but remember where it is comming from. Brought to you by the same people that brought you Windows 9x, NT, 2k, XP. I have serious doubts about MS being able to pull this off. On top of that I have serious reservations about companines jumping on the .NET waggon too soon. Once you migrate and MS decides that the concept is impractical...where do you think you will be then? Also something this pivotal and "unifying" should be open sourced. How can anyone in good faith submit all kinds of info through the .NET architecture when you know there are bound to be about 10^9 backdoors. If MS puts them in, then others will be able to find and exploit them. I might just be paranoid though.

[sans-hubris]

Originally posted by sicarius
.NET is a great idea, but remember where it is comming from. Brought to you by the same people that brought you Windows 9x, NT, 2k, XP. I have serious doubts about MS being able to pull this off. On top of that I have serious reservations about companines jumping on the .NET waggon too soon. Once you migrate and MS decides that the concept is impractical...where do you think you will be then? Also something this pivotal and "unifying" should be open sourced. How can anyone in good faith submit all kinds of info through the .NET architecture when you know there are bound to be about 10^9 backdoors. If MS puts them in, then others will be able to find and exploit them. I might just be paranoid though.
You should know that C# (http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-334.htm) and the CLI Runtime (http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-335.htm) (aka .NET Framework) are both ECMA standards. This was, and still is a problem with Java and its bytecodes. I have more faith in the .NET Framework to be platform independent than I do in Java.

Did I mention that Mono (http://www.go-mono.com) is doing quite a good job?

However, I should mention that complete .NET compatibility (by that I mean having compatibility with Microsoft's proprietary classes) are goals of non-Ximian Mono developers. Ximian's goal (more particularly, de Izaca's goals) is to create a language independent GNOME development platform.

[El Paso]

I have a PIII 600E/256 mb RAM machine, and VS.NET works just fine on it.

[Arker]

Originally posted by sicarius
I have serious doubts about MS being able to pull this off.

I pray that you are right...

Arker.