Tag Archives: Visual Studio

When the best is not recommended.

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Steven Fisher

A lovely quote from the Visual Studio 2005 documentation (found through searching index for /W4): Level 4 displays all level 3 warnings plus informational warnings, which in most cases can be safely ignored. This option should be used only to … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio vs. Xcode

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Steven Fisher

Working with Xcode and Visual Studio on a day-to-day basis, it’s natural that I’d compare the two tools. The following is not intended to be an unbiased comparison. These are my opinions only. They’re based on how I work, and … Continue reading →

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Whole Tomato Software makes a product called Visual Assist X that makes Visual Studio’s text editor almost tolerable. This replaces the evil demonic spawn Microsoft calls “Intellisense” with something that doesn’t seem to crash.

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Are we talking about the same Visual Studio?

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Steven Fisher

Every time someone tells me how great an IDE Visual Studio is, I wonder if we’re talking about the same Visual Studio. Just to be clear, the one I’m using is from Microsoft. Here’s an error message I ran into … Continue reading →

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