Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac has hit general availability — you can download it now from visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads. Visual Studio 2019 includes AI-assisted code completion with Visual Studio IntelliCode. Separately, real-time collaboration tool Visual Studio Live Share has also hit general availability, and is now included with Visual Studio 2019.

Comments

Re:No Microsoft IDE will ever be as usable as VB6

[KingMotley]

I've used both, and .Net (vb.net and C#) are very much a complete replacement and upgrade from VB6. For desktop applications, it is very similar. You have a form, you drop controls on it, you double click on the control and it hooks up the default event for that control, and drops you into where you can enter the code to run when that event fires.

You also get control (if you want it) to how to spawn the forms at start up, and yes, you can still get multidimensional array of database objects in ADODB, or datasets if you really want.

Re:Noooo!

[rastos1]

On a macintosh or a linux machine, I can type gcc my_program.c -o my_program and I'm done.

I love to bash MS just like the next /. reader, but compare apples to apples:

C:\w>echo int main(int argc,char *argv[]){return 0;} >foo.c

C:\w>cl foo.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.16.27027.1 for x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

foo.c
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.16.27027.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

/out:foo.exe
foo.obj
C:\w>dir foo*
...
04/03/2019 08:16 AM 46 foo.c
04/03/2019 08:16 AM 78,336 foo.exe
04/03/2019 08:16 AM 564 foo.obj

Now compare how you display STL container or string in GDB and Visual Studio.