Re: What I saw at MS Launch
- From: "Mike Swaim" <mpswaim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 1 Dec 2005 13:39:07 -0700
Kyle A. Miller wrote:
> Here are my observations:
>
> 1. Lots of ALM and enterprise talk. I am not sure how many individual
> developers this frightened away. Hobbyists, hackers, et. al. do not
> speak of such things. ;) Oh wait, they did give away free software.
A problem with their implementation is that it's implemented as 3
seperate SKUs. I used the RC and miss some of the features that were
taken out for the Developer version of Team System. (Yeah, there's an
Uber-version out there, but you have to buy it seperately, even if you
have MSDN Universal.) That's a potential weakness that Borland could
exploit. (Do you want to group tests, or be able to view a class
diagram. Can't do both.)
> 2. Out of all the material I saw, three things I found interesting:
> Shelving in VCS, application deployment modeling, and some of the new
> ASP.NET 2.0 features.
> It seemed a lot of the ASP.NET 2.0 stuff allowed easier management of
> the config files and automated some of the items you would manually
> implement in ASP.NET 1.1.
That was the stated goal for ASP.Net 2. One of my co-workers has
problems with 2.0's deployment model. For asp.net apps, it seems to be
"bundle everything up, and throw it all out there." That can be painful
for multiproject solutions.
> 3. I had many moments where I was thinking, "Yea, Delphi does that.
> Yea, the VCL did and does that." It was funny to see the interest in
> the new DataSource components. The database based ones are like a
> cross between BdpDataAdapter and TDataSource. The DataSource
> components are used to bind data sources with controls to develop
> zero code UI connections. What a concept.
Binding a grid to a collection is now REALLY easy. With WinForms, you
can even automagically have the grid create new objects if the user
goes to the bottom of the list.
> 5. I saw Visual Studio 2005, the claimed to be bug-free and paradigm
> of quality Borland should reach for, crash not once, not twice, but
> three times.
I've never crashed VS, but if you use a combobox column in a grid,
and bind the combobox to a collection, it's really easy to confuse the
WinForms designer, and have it just display an error message.
(Fortunately, code doesn't get trashed.)
> I mention this for those who claim Visual Studio is so
> good that it never crashes and never needs a service pack.
MS has already stated that there's going to be a service pack for both
2003 and 2005 next year.
I am a
> realist and know no software is perfect, not by Microsoft or Borland.
> Quality is a destination always pursued and never reached.
>
> 6. In terms of performance, I would put the BDS IDE (D2005 w/FastMM
> or D2006) against VS any day of the week. I will admit that the VS
> IDE seemed peppy except when it came to bringing up designers. It was
> not blazing fast. In fact, the presenter himself moaned something
> about having accidently selected a form instead of just its code
> file.
I think that the problem has to do with the designer repainting forms
more than it has to.
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