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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Onward, VS.NET Express! *lashes*

Hello everyone.

So, it looks like I'll be competing in this coveted Exclusive GeeksWithBlogs Member Game Design Contest that I've been hearing so much about. It's only a short one (one month) so I'm confident that I can at least spew out something in time that resembles a game. Plus, I've been looking for an excuse to brush up on my C# skills.

Due to the previous paragraph, I suppose it's obvious that I'll be making use of Visual C# Express 2005 for my contest entry. I've had it installed/registered for a few months now, but it's only now that I've really had a reason to boot 'er up and actually see what I can do with it. Should be a fun powertrip. ;)

Maybe after every entry I'll add a little "Thing I like" and "Thing I dislike" bit to fulfill the requirement of speaking of my experiences with the IDE. Yeah, that sounds good. :P

Thing I Like: The intellisense is awesome. I love the way it pops up the popular items first, and knows the ideal times to materialize to offer its infinite wisdom. A big improvement over VS.NET 2003.

Thing I dislike: VC# 2005 seems to (by default) enable "code fixing". This "feature" likes to change the formatting of my code as I type it. Ie.

"Foo.BarAt(x,y);" it'll mangle into "Foo.BarAt( x, y );"

Which is just "ew" to me, since I like to be really esoteric about my code. ;) And I won't even go into the ugliness it does with my beautiful for() loops. However, this can be turned off. It took me somewhere in the realm of 5 minutes to finally find the option and get it all deactivated so it wouldn't interrupt anymore. I know the intention was to reenforce good coding habits/formatting of newer coders who are using the IDE, but man is that a pain. :)

(Ew, and I seem to need to manually insert linebreaks or else I get a huge block of ugliness. Doh.)

posted @ Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:23 PM | Feedback (1)

 

 

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