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Microsoft releases an updated Visual Studio
SOFTWARE VENDOR WITH PRIVACY ISSUES Microsoft has released the latest version of its applications development suite, Visual Studio 2010, along with a revision of its .Net framework.
The integrated development environment (IDE) went into release candidate status in February and now the Vole apparently has decided it is time to unleash this latest version of its text editor, debugger and memory hog upon the world at a developer gathering in Las Vegas.
Most of these launch affairs, unless hosted by the cappuccino company Apple, see the vendor talking up its interaction with developers in producing a tool that caters to their needs. This of course was no different, with Microsoft saying that feedback was "instrumental in shaping this release".
Not content with releasing an overweight version of Vi with debugging capabilities, Microsoft also announced the release of the latest version of its .Net framework. Microsoft said that .Net, now in its fourth iteration, finally "adds support for industry standards", although it didn't care to detail what those standards actually are.
However Microsoft developers presumably will breathe a sigh of relief to hear that both 3.5 and 4.0 of the .Net framework can be installed side by side to aid in testing applications.
Finally, web users everywhere will be able to rejoice later this week when the Vole will release its latest version of the web's favourite redundant plug-in, Silverlight.
Apparently offering "compelling application experiences", Silverlight has, apparently, been freed from the shackles of the browser environment with "extended out-of-browser capabilities".
That's just what you wanted to hear about an unnecessary proprietary standard based and closed source web browser plug-in that has had, at best, a rough ride on privacy issues since its inception. µ
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I come back to the inquirer after a month-long hiaitus to see if the material has started to head back in the right direction and this article is what I find? Wow. Really, where is Magee when you need him. You sure picked a good target to go after Mr. Latif. Visual Studio is a great product and VS2010 should be no exception. I can't wait to start using it. Goodbye now Inq, I will check back in another two months to see if 1) your humor has returned or 2) your article quality has returned.
You can blame other MS products with some few respect but to blame Visual Studio as you did it's completely non-sense and stupid.
Man, you seriously don't know what you're writing about. VS is simply one of the best and is the most complete IDE today.
Lawrence Latif. I'll remember this name the next time I visit TheInq.
Dude it is time to give up your VAX terminal and move into the world of pixels and modern software.
Saying that VS is an overweight version of Vi would be like saying the space station is an expensive cave that is hard to get to.
Check out VS for a couple of minutes to see why even us old school programmers actually like having an IDE that assists with typing out inane syntax.
Who said the art of journalism is dead?
The key change for .NET Framework 4.0 is that the new runtime can load into the same process as the 2.0 runtime also used by 3.0 and 3.5. These are fundamentally just new libraries on top of the 2.0 core, largely because of the restriction that only one version of framework could load into a process.
That means that you can write plug-ins in .NET 4.0 for a program that already loads .NET 2.0, which was not possible for .NET 2.0 and 1.x.
Seriously, I can see why people would hate on windows as it has plenty of flaws (as if other OS didn't) but to hate on VS is just idiotic.
Vs is one of the most efficient and productive IDEs ever, and the .Net framework, even though is closed and propietary, is very effective and productive, not to mention a lot faster than java for windows (Now that's bloated crap right there) So you might want to slow down your criticism unless you want to look like a complete idiot.
I don't like Microsoft but even I have to admit your article was over the top with bias and hate.
In my opinion Visual Studio is one of Microsoft's best products; at least from version 2003 onward. Sure it's a heavy app but it does offer a lot of functionality for that bloat unlike Vista did.
VI is an ancient, antiquated program that exists only for hardcore nerds who can't stand to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the modern era. Is it really so painful for you to use an IDE or even Gedit or Notepad++?
For a long time, Visual Studio has been the best development IDE. I'm really looking forward to the new features.
Regarding framework 4.0 working alongside framework 3.5, this is a standard approach in Dot Net. You can also run framework 2.0, 1.1 and even 1.0 alongside framework 4.0 without any issues and it'll be more stable than Java.
The main reason to use Silverlight is that everything can be done in 1 tool, with the same code base. Makes development a lot quicker and easier than switching tools and in many cases, languages.
Wanted to test the hyped Silverlight last year, I downloaded the client but alas "can't install on your computer - too old". My workhorse, running office, engineering programs, 24X7 mail server and torrent client and FTP server, Firefox and Thunderbird and occasional IE7, various services and other programs - including Dreamweaver - was just too old for Silverlight (my system is Athlon 1200 + 2GB mem circa 2000).
Am I the only one left with a working "too old" computer? Oh well, back to Flash...
I think to be redundant you have to have been employed in the first place