Re: For the Windoze haters - VS2005

So this is what I do: use the VS2005 setup to develop the app and debug. Once it is running well, I recompile the release version on VC6 and distribute that. And my clients are happy that my files are tiny and run on WIndows ME, 2000 and XP without any installation process at all.

So why bother with VS2005 at all?

The VS2005 compiler is much better and finds a lot of bugs at compile time and run time (for example, use of an uninitialized variable) that VC6 would never catch. Also, the IDE provides the long missed project wide text search and replace function.

So if my app compiles without warnings and runs without errors on 2005, it'll be cleaner for VC6 as well.
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