Which Visual Studio Program?

[theo-armour]

@Abantech/core

I have been an on-and-off user of Microsoft 'Visual' products from their inception.

One interesting aspect is that Visual Studio can breed to new products faster than they can euthanize old products.

I recently spent a bit of time exploring some parts of Visual Studio - the 2015 version available from here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/

Needless to say I did not explore the full 8 gig of stuff. In fact after several hours of the app saying 'Wait! Wait! There's more!! --- to install' I called it quits. Coping with endless black boxes of code is not what I do.

The other day, however, I was clued in on another stream - the Visual Studio Code stream.

Link: https://code.visualstudio.com

I am wondering:

Are any of you are playing with this code base?

If so, what might your opinions might be?

[GMelencio]

Hi Theo -

I haven't seen that Visual Studio Code Stream. But it looks like a really
cool tool and will be checking it out!

As far as visual studio goes though I'm really happy to know you at least
gave it a shot. On the program itself, I will say this: I've been working
with it for about 14 years (since the beta) and I still am only familiar
with about 20% of what it can really do - but its the most important 20% in
my opinion. And I can say confidently that no other code editor out there
can hold a stick to the ease & flexibility of use Visual Studio provides
the developer.

Need to commit a file? right click > commit > add comments - done. Need to
get the latest version? right click the project, source control > get
latest, done. Want to know where a function you're using is defined?
highlight it and hit F12 - opens the function definition in a sub window.
Don't remember what all the members of a particular class/object are? type
out the name press period and it will show you a list of all the properties
and functions of the object. These are just a few examples of what visual
studio can do that makes coding such a joy

Initial set up can be a pain, but once you've learned the joys of it any
and all other editors will pale in comparison.

Right James?

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Theo Armour notifications@github.com
wrote:

@Abantech/core https://github.com/orgs/Abantech/teams/core

I have been an on-and-off user of Microsoft 'Visual' products from their
inception.

One interesting aspect is that Visual Studio can breed to new products
faster than they can euthanize old products.

I recently spent a bit of time exploring some parts of Visual Studio - the
2015 version available from here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/

Needless to say I did not explore the full 8 gig of stuff. In fact after
several hours of the app saying 'Wait! Wait! There's more!! --- to install'
I called it quits. Coping with endless black boxes of code is not what I
do.

The other day, however, I was clued in on another stream - the Visual
Studio Code stream.

Link: https://code.visualstudio.com

I am wondering:

Are any of you are playing with this code base?

If so, what might your opinions might be?

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[GMelencio]

I have an idea - send me the url to a project your currently working on
(please grant me access to the repo) and I will show you a soup-to-nuts
video of how to work with it in visual studio - setup and all. The whole
thing should take under 5 minutes. I happen to need to set up a new machine
soon so this will be the perfect time to do it.

Thanks.

Greg

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Greg Melencio greg@abantech.net wrote:

Hi Theo -

I haven't seen that Visual Studio Code Stream. But it looks like a really
cool tool and will be checking it out!

As far as visual studio goes though I'm really happy to know you at least
gave it a shot. On the program itself, I will say this: I've been working
with it for about 14 years (since the beta) and I still am only familiar
with about 20% of what it can really do - but its the most important 20% in
my opinion. And I can say confidently that no other code editor out there
can hold a stick to the ease & flexibility of use Visual Studio provides
the developer.

Need to commit a file? right click > commit > add comments - done. Need to
get the latest version? right click the project, source control > get
latest, done. Want to know where a function you're using is defined?
highlight it and hit F12 - opens the function definition in a sub window.
Don't remember what all the members of a particular class/object are? type
out the name press period and it will show you a list of all the properties
and functions of the object. These are just a few examples of what visual
studio can do that makes coding such a joy

Initial set up can be a pain, but once you've learned the joys of it any
and all other editors will pale in comparison.

Right James?

Greg Melencio
CEO and Founder
Abantech LLC
571-402-4688

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Theo Armour notifications@github.com
wrote:

@Abantech/core https://github.com/orgs/Abantech/teams/core

I have been an on-and-off user of Microsoft 'Visual' products from their
inception.

One interesting aspect is that Visual Studio can breed to new products
faster than they can euthanize old products.

I recently spent a bit of time exploring some parts of Visual Studio -
the 2015 version available from here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/

Needless to say I did not explore the full 8 gig of stuff. In fact after
several hours of the app saying 'Wait! Wait! There's more!! --- to install'
I called it quits. Coping with endless black boxes of code is not what I
do.

The other day, however, I was clued in on another stream - the Visual
Studio Code stream.

Link: https://code.visualstudio.com

I am wondering:

Are any of you are playing with this code base?

If so, what might your opinions might be?

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