Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer

On 25 May 2024 03:11:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 24 May 2024 23:08:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

If Visual Studio is so wonderful, why is there Visual Studio Code?

 
It's really an entirely different animal. One nice feature of Visual
Studio is the available templates for various projects although they
aren't necessary. There is better support for WinForms and WPf,
installer creation, and so forth. You can get by with dotnet and MSBuild
but it's a lot more work.
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VSCode has a lot of extensions that I don't think are available in
Visual Studio workloads. For example I have Pylance installed for
general Python work, MicroPico for working with the Pico W, PlatformIO
for  Arduinos and other boards, Jupyter notebook support, C/C#/C++
extensions, and a few others.
 
That's on both my Windows and Linux machines. Visual Studio is Windows
only.

So Microsoft’s development efforts are fragmented across two entirely
different, incompatible IDE architectures.

But then, fragmentation is nothing new to Microsoft, is it?