Another sleepless night, so I’ve been catching up on the hundreds of unread RSS items in my feed reader.
I am prefacing this post with “I haven’t done any heavy lifting with Visual Studio 2005 at this point”, so the opinions expressed herein aren’t mine. But if the unhappiness expressed by the MS developer community at this point holds any water, it’s definitely a sad day as (in the past at least) MS’s developer tools have usually been considered leaps and bounds beyond most others.
Mini-Microsoft has some pretty good posts about the community dissatisfaction going on about the Visual Studio 2005 RTM. He (assuming it’s a he…who knows who it really is) quotes some pretty hard hitting .Net community members in his posts; I’ll do my best to summarize what’s going on over at his blog:
By summarize I meant I’ll link to the gripers. The real gems are in the comments of the above posts, and are very much worth reading. I haven’t seen complaints against VS like these since the early days of the VS2002/.Net 1.0 betas…much less a 2.0 shipped/RTM product. I was hard pressed to find any issues with VS2003…IMO it was one of the most polished products that MS has ever released…so why the (apparent) step backwards with VS2005? That all being said, I haven’t seen too many complaints about .Net 2.0 itself, just the VS IDE. Definitely makes me a bit wary though. What have you guys seen thus far?
I’m also temporarily retracting my previous statements about the new SQL2005 management tools…after some further exploration I’ve noticed that the new GUI takes quite a few clicks to get anything done. Manually typing commands in T-SQL might be quicker at this point. Slick looking GUI, but usability leaves a bit to be desired. This comment from Channel9 sums up what I’ve seen thus far quite nicely:
“Management Studio is just so bad that it makes Enterprise Manager look good. To one of my staff that saw me struggling with Management Studio "Well, looks like I won't be downgrading to SQL Server 2005 any time soon!" You can't use Query builder without about 10 steps, it doesn't allow execution (even though the right click menu item is there) directly, so you have to click ok, execute it on the stupid text screen and then edit it again in the design mode by selecting all fo the text, right clicking on it and opening the designer again, the thing comes up in the most anoying fashion in the first place and doesn't have a list of your registered servers displayed by default.
I.e. the Query Analyser team wrote this thing and the Enterprise Manager team got left out in the cold. End result, is that we have the same mantality that produced the steaming pile that is Query Analyser in the Management Studio tool and thus it's almost completely unusuable because of the increased clicks (on average I have to click about 7x more than I did with Enterprise Manager to get anything done).”
From what I’ve seen so far, my thoughts exactly. *Sigh*, this was supposed to be an incredible time to be an MS developer. I’ll stick with what works for now.
Posted
Nov 08 2005, 04:14 AM
by
Jayson Knight