Quote:Original post by VladRTo me, that is the biggest adantage of VC++ 2K5 over VC++6 - because it does let you see contents of arrays, vectors, maps and sets properly, even with nice little scrollable thingies when they are large. I find the new IDE and debugger absolutely wonderful.
Well, any advantages of STL are immediatelly wiped out by inability to see the contents of the array.
It's definitely slower as an IDE than VC6 but I find VC6 crashes more often. It is still a great tool but it really is showing its age now. For pure C++ it is fine but it really doesn't get on well with STL.
Oh, I'm downloading the latest DX SDK and we'll see how that goes. If it is a problem I'll get in touch - assuming you have v8.1, as 8.0 misses a few important things I use.