Quote:Original post by grofaz
My pc can handle the install, I just don't want to install it.
I've used MS stuff in the past and I know all about it, well enough about it anyway. :)
I know I don't want it on my machine. It's not a MS political thing, it's a product thing.
I use masm32 which is MS stuff too. But it's nice and lean.
Apples and oranges.
VS has felt large and chunky in the past and I refused to use it for some time, but I have come back to the express versions of their IDE and I am very impressed.
Say what you want about Microsoft but I don't think you'll get anyone who knows what he's talking about telling you that the current versions of VS are not good.
Like others have said, what ever IDE you use, you'll have to install SDKs which are usually quite large, but there's no getting past that if you want to develop using these SDKs. As far as Dev-C++ coming with the platform SDK, I've heard that it's some "chopped down", bastardised version of the SDK.
My advice is get over the unsubstantiated stigma about VS and use it.
