Visual Studio and Eclipse

With the Eclipse Day coming along (hmm… maybe I could organise a Visual Studio Day), I’ve been thinking a bit on the differences between it and Visual Studio.

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As I see it, Microsoft made a mistake by trying to give people too much… think default-wizard-like-approach to developing applications.


I see Eclipse as a Studio only, and Visual Studio as a Visual Studio… what do I mean with this bold statement?

In Visual Studio you have allot of added value tools (think wizards, designers, etc…)… while this sounds good for beginner to intermediate users, for the advanced ones… I think it only criples us out… why? again you ask

Well if you are a team leader trying to incorporate more advanced things better practices (think NHibernate, Unit testing or something similar which is great and not so well supported in Visual Studio) you will get more resistance from your fellow developers (ok, Morts probably) in a way that they think… If we have this which is so well integrated, why would we chose something other? hold on to your hats, I know there is a perfectly good way to convince them… but still, you have to convince them.

As for Eclipse (one disclaimer… I haven’t used it… I saw some videos about it to get at least a superfical grip on it), I think it’s only a Studio… that meaning that you have an editor which is good (I still don’t think good as Visual Studio + Refactor + Resharper… simply a god-like experience) and nothing more… good practices come from the Team and not from the default practices of the Studio… which gives you for bigger and better projects a better starting point.. at least when all the developers on the project are not on the same *level*


Please correct me if I am wrong… I will forward this to my friend Brane at Siemens to see what he says (the Eclipse side of the story :))…


Can’t wait for Eclipse day… maybe I could bring my laptop to show them the real god-like-development-mode


…in case you were wondering, this isn’t a marketing post… I just feel so good while developing with Visual Studio + Refactor + Resharper


Cheers!