Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2005 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2005 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: best VS yet...
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using the MS IDEs since back when it was still called "InterDev" - and I have to say this is the best one yet. Naturally there are some things that are not 100% intuitive to everyone. Not everyone thinks the same way, or develops the same way - so of course some things aren't going to make sense to people. Welcome to life...
However, after spending 5 minutes learning how to use it - one finds performing tasks that used to be difficult (or even impossible) in previous versions to be extremely simple. Want a strongly typed dataset? no problem. Want to build a website and only have to define 1 or 2 templates for the whole thing? no problem. Want to take advantage of caching, simply by adding a couple lines of code to the top of a page? yup - got that too.
Granted - some of the things that make VS2005 so great are more because of the features of .net2.0 - but this version of visual studio makes those features easy to use and understand.
Definately worth the money.
Customer Review: Why'd you buy it?
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading the reviews about thisd product and noting that I, a novice in Visual Basic 6.0, but quite confident in VBScript do not understand why someone with all the brains these guys have would buy a product just to complain about it.
So, there are problems. If any of you worked with COBOL, you'd think that Visual Studio and Visual Basic were a Godsend! COBOL is a dinosaur of the magnitude of a T-REX! This stuff is allot better than what us COBOL programmers had to put up with.
I'm not going to buy this product because I see allot of disgrunting from those who have. Of course, in the "old days", you found work arounds for the problems that COBOL caused. Maybe you can't do that with this stuff. Butm the way I figure it, once you bought, you live with it and find out ways around the problems.
Good luck to you all.
Customer Review: What a Slug
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this because I needed the standard version so I could create custom controls for VB.net.
This software is a horrific resource hog. It runs so slow on my machine that it is almost unusable. (I am running a 1GHz machine with 392megs of RAM) It takes almost 5 minutes just to start the program and several minutes to load an existing project. I have also had problems with it when it finds a bug: you correct the bug and it will not let you back in to edit. You have to restart the program. Furthermore the documentation is garbage. It takes forever to search the MSDN help and then returns incomprehensible articles often that are not on the correct subject. Examples used are extremely complex instead of explaining things are a showcase for some MS programmer to show how smart he is. Furthermore if you think this is BASIC, think again. This language shares almost no relationship to the old VB6 or earlier visual basics. As far as Microsoft is concerned BASIC is dead.
Customer Review: A fair product
Summary: 4 Stars
I went with this because I thought the newest version would be best. It's a step up in design and presentation but for a moderate programmer like me, it's not much different from older versions. There are many good little things that makes this stand out (like search and replace feature has been redesigned so you don't accidentally replace all the wrong files), but there are bad little things that balance the good such as using L "enter string here" to use text with the WINAPI and putting a variable after using const. I'm not a Visual Studio expert but I'd say people will actually have more trouble really getting into this instead of less. In all, I still believe this to be a good product.... explaining things in simpler terms would be my suggestion for the future. I mean really, "Depreciated"? I think more people would get obsolete or just plain say the library has been improved. Apart from explanations, everything works and looks beautifully!Customer Review: Not Adequate, Not Ready, Not Usable
Summary: 1 Stars
We've been waiting a long time for Studio 2005, and it's a very exciting release. Unfortunately, it's not ready for release. The package is unstable from the install onwards.
I'm a .Net programmer, a C# early adapter, a long-time user of sophisticated programming tools and IDEs including earlier versions of MS Visual Studio. And I've been a beta tester for MS as well as other major software companys.
This is beta-quality code, at best. Wait a while, as MS will undoubtedly get everything straightened out in time. OR, if you want to spend half a day installing a package that doesn't work right -- go for it.