[Dev-C++] Visual Studio .NET

[Len P. <le...@ph...>]

(someone asked me why I thought VS .NET was weird, but I accidentally 
deleted the message)

I think the .NET version of VS (at least) is very unfriendly to Win32 
development in straight C, from what I've seen. EVERYTHING is geared 
to C++ / MFC / .NET / Windows forms / XML / ATL / etc. instead of 
Win32/C. The documentation, while huge, is difficult to use in that 
it always defaults to everything except Win32 and due to the size 
it's always a task to find any given bit of information. There's no 
contextual link from the IDE to Win32 or C / standard library 
documentation, etc., etc. Even the editor is somewhat weak by text 
editor standards, but that's expected (IMO) from Microsoft.

I'm not interested in network programs (or really, even network 
awareness), .NET, OOP, MFC, XML, ASP or any of that other stuff - 
Just Win32 in straight C. It's not exactly geared to that kind of 
development.

Plus, it's *H*U*G*E* and slow.

-- 
 Len Philpot                          ><> 
 le...@ph...       http://philpot.org/