just wondering do any of you use them or hve used them? are they full products etc. I have used the sql server version and that was pretty feature rich. I am currently downloading the c++ version to see if it will work with the new hl2 sdk because that needs vs.net

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Quote:Original post by Themonkster
just wondering do any of you use them or hve used them?

are they full products etc.

They're pretty much anything the casual professional programmer could want. A few features are missing, including source control, the Class Designer wizard, remote debugging, and ClickOnce deployment. This MSDN blog entry covers more of the differences.

I use VC# and am quite happy with it. The Intellisense is vastly improved over VS7, there's generics and inference delegates (OMG yes!!!) in the framework, and a whole slew of other awesome stuff. I'll be upgrading to VS 2005 when it (finally) comes out, though, but only because our school gets it for free.