Bitter Visual C++.net 2003 experience

Original on Live Space:Sun Mar 26 09:55:55 CST 2006

This weekend I wanted to write some code for fun, and I wanted to try Visual Studio .Net.

MS has offered free download of Visual C++ 2005 Express, but it's still too expensive for me. There was only 1G free space on my PIII 800M, and I was running out my time from ISP (OK, I'm not that poor. Thank you!). Anyway I chose Microsoft Visual C Toolkit 2003.

It took me a lot of time to finish my small application. Much longer than I had expected. Because all code sample on MSDN is for VS2005, and VS2005 is totally a different language from VC2003 IMHO.

 

Just a little example:
// this is from MSDN, it IS C++ code, but NOT what I once knew.
array<String^>^ name;
// and this is its grandpa's version. Hi, buddy!
String* name[];

 

It made me feeling very bad that I couldn't read a C++ (so called by MS) code.
I think MS is pushing developers to VS2005 by free download and new code samples.
It's a big bet.

 

Tag: ms vs2003