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Inside Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-kinds-of-i-in-team dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has posted a top 10 list of things you need to know about Visual Studio 2005 Team System. From the article: Everybody talks about collaborative development tools, and heaven knows you can't surf the major developers' for 10 minutes without getting hit by banners trumpeting the latest. We can't fault Microsoft for wanting a piece of that action; but we need more than just a collaborative environment."

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  1. Glitch in the matrix by dantheman82 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somehow this article slipped through the /. MS filter and is not sufficient anti-MS! Quick, call Neo! Fortunately, having a free MSDN subscription that ended at the end of October got me just under the wire for the release of Team System Developer's Edition. Nevermind that I don't have the extra 3 GB to play around with right now...

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  2. VS overhead by Simonetta · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see. I write a tiny terminal program that gets characters from the PC serial port and writes them to the screen. Not a big deal. Maybe ten lines of code in Turbo C for DOS maximum. Maybe a 10-20K byte executable.

      Visual Studio requires me to either include the MS Run Time support supplemental file or have my users download it. Visual Basic 3 had a 330K RunTime supplemental file. Absurd, irritating, but no big deal.
    Visual Basic has a 1.2 Megabyte RunTime supplemental file. Bloated and stupid, but just roll your eyes 'cause it's Microsoft.

        Now .NET has a mother fking 26 Megabyte RunTime supplemental file. For a ten line trival program. Forget it. Beyond reasonable. Time to switch to Linux. I doubt that anyone uses .NET who hasn't purchased the .NET development system. Certainly not anyone using ME, Win2000, or Win98.

        So what's the size of the 'support' file foe Visual Studio 2005? Over 100 Megabytes? Or did someone in Redmond come to their senses and do away with the whole idea have having to download a RunTime supplemental file in order to run a relatively simple application?

    --Not likely-- Common sense stops at Olympia and doesn't start to come back until the Canadian border.