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Originally Posted by George Giolfan
Requirements
Has anybody managed to use the IDE on older configurations such as 96 MB RAM ? (I mean really use, not just start and watch the virtual memory page file reach 300 MB while the application is not even repainting its windows.)
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I haven't downloaded the 2005 beta, but I'm running VS.NET 2003 on a 366mhz P2 with 128 megs of RAM. It's okay for the most part, though a tad slow when starting up or loading the documentation for certain functions (especially when filtering by language).
However, I grabbed the demo version of Rational XDE the other day (I can't stand Rational Rose, but we gotta use that shit for my CASE/4GL class), and talk about sloooow. I made an empty solution, stuck some empty projects in it, added a single class to one of them, and then did a 'synchronize' operation. Took about a half hour for it to make the damn UML diagram. I could have gone outside and pissed in the snow, and made it faster.
My solution, then, is to do all the code, and make the diagrams at school, where they have decent machines.
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Originally Posted by George Giolfan
Code editor
I consider the "Then" keyword useless (I never use If <condition> Then <statement>"). How can I disable such behavior ?
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I'm pretty sure you can turn off the autoformatting stuff that the IDE does for you. I find that in VB at least, it's nice to leave on, as it keeps the code looking consistent, and I can be lazy with capitalization, etc. Sure, it's annoying sometimes, but it seems to be more helpful than annoying.
Wanna know what I find annoying? It's when your program throws an uncaught exception at runtime, and you have this tiny window you cannot resize, and you have to scroll like a frickin' madman to read the call trace.