I like Visual Studio. I’ve been using it for years and years and I know it’s quirks intimately. The new VS 2005 has lots of great features that help me write code faster. There are also a few annoyances, like little burrs under my shirt collar, that chafe me and make me want the slam my fist through the… Oh wait a minute. Just kidding.
I’m constantly on the look-out for new keystrokes or shortcuts to speed up coding. I relentlessly explore new tools and add-in, looking for the next one that will help make the Visual Studio IDE even better. One of my favorite add-ins is CodeRush. Simply put, CodeRush is an AWESOME tool. But I’ll write more about CodeRush another day. Today I want to talk about Eclipse.
Whoa. A Java tool? Did he have one too many rum balls during the Christmas holiday?
No. Working with Visual Studio 2005 is very gratifying, but there is still room for improvement. Jon Skeet has a fabulous comparison of Visual Studio and Eclipse (the Java IDE). Read it. See what we are missing from our beloved IDE. Let your friends at Microsoft know that there is still room for improvement in Visual Studio 2007.
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Be sure and read the comments. There are lots of reasons given for liking VS too.