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By Sri Chandra on Apr. 27, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 is a BIG improvement. One of the coolest new feature is Code Metrics which allows you to see which of your methods need a tune-up and areas that need to be refactored.

By an anonymous user on Apr. 27, 2008

It really comes down to what you are looking to use it for. For win32 development, it is excellent. However, if you don't want to pay the license fees, you must check out Eclipse. It has a much richer community delivering amazing plugins for Java-based development, as well as other languages. We use it heavily for our php development. It integrates well with CVS and SVN and has plugins for schema modeling, UML, etc.

By Leon Merchi on May. 19, 2008

I agree with #2. There are several cheaper alternatives than Visual Studio, but you definitely get what you pay for. Visual Studio, especially the team edition, works quite well if you want to really use its power. If you are looking to save on the license fee, you can go with Eclipse. You can also take a look at NetBeans by Sun or Komodo, which are both worth taking a look at.

By an anonymous user on May. 30, 2008

Visual Studio is without a doubt one of the buggiest, slowest, hungriest - overall shittiest applications I've ever had the mispleasure of using.

Why are you asking around here anyway - this is an 'open source' site, isn't it? Try eclipse, or netbeans. Or emacs.

By an anonymous user on Sep. 11, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 represents further efforts by Microsoft to attract immature gullible developers into perpetuating software lockin on a global scale, so they can continue to gouge as much profit as possible for their shareholders.