Microsoft Academic Alliance

[Thumper]

I'm not normally one to brag..
But guess who just got a legit copy of Visual Studio 2010 Professional for 28 bucks?

This guyy(:

I felt like that warranted a little bit of excitement. I'm a little too excited though. Man, I need a social life.
Anyway, the CIS course I'm taking is aligned with Microsoft, so I've got full access to legions of free Microsoft products on MSDN.

So, i guess the point of this was to see if anybody else has had that opportunity. Or maybe spark a conversation about how much everyone loves free things.

-Thumper

[3hM2Nwbp]

I had(have) the opportunity to get Win7 through it when it first came out through MAA, but didn't feel like being a Guinna pig so I opted out of it. Just curious, does VS2010 Professional support intellisense for C++/CLI?

[Thumper]

I don't mind being the guinea pig, I'm running a free copy of 64-bit win7, everything's good in the hood.
I'm not sure, I haven't heard much of the differences between VS2008, and VS2010. I just know that its the newer one, therefore, i must have it. :P

[3hM2Nwbp]

Well, Microsoft was overhauling their intellisense system and didn't get it quite finished in time to ship VS2010. The express edition is lacking support for C++/CLI, but I'm not sure about professional. I still use 2008 for just that reason.

[Thumper]

Fair enough.
What's the difference between standard C++ and C++/CLI, anyway?

[Computergeek01]

@ OP: Check out the Windows section of this site some time. You'll see it pretty quick. I'm starting to consider picking it up since questions are asked so often and it functionally is a seperate language, I'd say they are as different as Java and Java script. Or better yet as different as C++ and C#.

[Thumper]

Oh, okay. I've checked out that portion of the forum before and decided it was above me for the time being. I'm perfectly contempt with sfml, qt, and boost.

Maybe I'll pick it up one day.

@Luc Lieber
Once my copy arrives I'll let you know if VS2010 pro has intellisense for C++/CLI.

[Computergeek01]

Honestly, I doubt that you wouldn't be able to pick up on Win32 with about a week or so of honest effort, it's pretty straight forward and better documented, on MSDN none the less, then any other library you could use. The problem I see is that people post there about C++\CLI questions then some new user checks it out to get a feel for the code only to not recognize the language at all. I think this intimidates people out of using a rather powerful and easy to pick up on library.

One thing I feel that I need to mention if you would go learn to write windows apps is that you should use Bing **DUCKS UNDER DESK**. I know, I know, it sounds like blasphemy but Bing actually caches Microsofts entry for Windows functions above everything else as long as you enter them in right. Where as Google will always give you the most popular site, which often times, is completley useless.

[Thumper]

Yeah, i've gone through a few Win32 tutorials in the past. I've never really had a use for it, so I just stopped reading about it.

BING!? *brings out the forgetme stick* Say what now?!
Does it really? Wow, I didn't know that about Bing. Thanks for the tid bit. I'll take that into consideration in the future.

[z05DSL3A]

Luc Lieber wrote:

I'll let you know if VS2010 pro has intellisense for C++/CLI.

It it not available in VS 2010 Ultimate.

Edit:

Computergeek01 wrote:

One thing I feel that I need to mention if you would go learn to write windows apps is that you should use Bing **DUCKS UNDER DESK**.

Go directly to MSDN Library and search there (it uses Bing in a more focused way)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123401.aspx