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Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005 Go Gold

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

October 27, 2005, 2:10 PM

Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, just over a week before the products make their official debut at a gala event in San Francisco. Downloads of the next-generation development products will be available for MSDN subscribers later today.

"Microsoft has noted since it began development of these products that it will ship when customers have indicated the products are ready," a company spokesperson told BetaNews, hinting at the numerous delays. "Today's RTM milestone is evidence that Microsoft's customers have given the company the 'OK' to sign, seal and deliver the latest evolution of its application platform."

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By templar™

posted Oct 28, 2005 - 1:20 AM

SQL Server 2005 is cool. But VS 2005 is still pretty basic compared to the Eclipse IDE. Too bad there is no competent .NET development environment for Eclipse yet.

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By templar™

posted Oct 28, 2005 - 10:55 AM

Guys, I'm not comparing .NET development using Eclipse versus using VS2005. I am comparing them are IDEs (Eclipse for Java and VS for C#, etc.).

I'm using both. Eclipse is really far superior than VS2005 especially in the "Intelligent Editor" department. Not to mention the superior refactoring and REAL background auto-compilation.

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By gallyjh

posted Oct 28, 2005 - 7:46 AM

wow...you might be retarded...

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By Caleb

posted Oct 28, 2005 - 5:18 AM

VS 2005 > (Eclipse + CDT)^2

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By Mark Gillespie

posted Oct 28, 2005 - 4:44 AM

VS2005 is basic compared to Eclipse IDE??? You must be joking right? Eclipse may be good for integrating lots of different tools/compilers, but as a .NET programming enviroment, it's miles behind VS2005 (and even VS2003)

I think your experiences are non-typicial to the majority of VS2005 userbase, who just want a top notch .NET dev enviorment.