Opinions wanted - are you considering skipping VS 2005?

Kimberly L. Tripp asked the question today about skipping SQL 2005 and jump straight to SQL 2008. I think it's also a valid question fro Visual Studio 2005.

Now that VS 2008 Beta 2 is out with a go live license, considering also the number of cool features added to VS, I wonder if I need to bother any more with VS 2005.

I am a web developer, and now I do a lot of Ajax and Javascript and the debugging features integrated in VS 2008 are really tempting.

What do you think?

 

15 Comments

  • Hi.

    I work for a company (here in Brazil) which systems are all based in .NET Framework 1.1 (most of the the companies here still do the same) so, personally, I'll redirect my efforts to learn deep only VS 2008 and skip VS 2005.

    Containing so many cool enhancements VS 2008 is really really tempting. By the way, we have multi-targeting, right?

    []s

  • You're still in VS2003?! Are you a masochist or something? :-)

  • Yes, I am planning to move over to vs 2008. any way it is multi targeting so will not cause any problem I hope :)

  • The debug feature is nice but the big reason I would skip VS '05 would be the intellecent(misspelled I know) with Javascript. That feature alone make the skip very logical

  • Good Question. I've been working with VS 2005 since the day it RTM'd, but I have not had a chance to master SQL 2005 yet. I wouldn't call it a skip, but I've been putting off diving into SQL 2005 in depth until this winter.

  • I'm heavily considering skipping VS 2005. While we would benefit from an upgrade to VS 2005 from VS 2003, I think that we would continue to miss out on features by just upgrading to VS 2005. I really like the new features they have created between 2005 and 2008, but at the sametime, we need time to catch up. I hope the slow down the madness just a bit!

  • Skipping 2K8 and waiting for the next one. Either marketing isnt doing its job or Im getting burned out on these releases (seriously - a CTP of vs.next before Orcas is even out of beta?!??!?).

  • unless you are unlucky like me and you are stuck with windows 2000.. I don't know why they don't release a version of vs 2008 for windows 2000.

  • I'm very eager to jump straight into 2008 because I do a lot of AJAX and JavaScript programming. However I think I'll wait a few weeks to make sure there aren't any major issues.

  • With its multi-target option, VS2008 can be adopted on both new and existing projects, be it targeted at .net framework 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5.

    --
    Luciano Evaristo Guerche
    Taboao da Serra, SP, Brazil

  • @PBZ

    I also am stuck in 1.1 at work (I have VS2005 and .Net 2.0 at home) and will be recommending that we also skip VS2005 and jump right to 2008.

    Believe me I am not still in VS2003 because I want to be. I don't get to sign the checks or buy the new software :(

  • Yeah, you should have been in VS 2005 for a long time now (I usually go in the betas).

    VS 2008 is backwards compatible with VS 2005 projects... I've been using it for a bit now, and my friend is in the Microsoft TAP program for Visual Studio Orcas, so I know it's a solid project.

    I'm getting Orcas Beta 2 right now :)

  • I'd personally always wait for the 'go-live' of any IDE before starting production code of any kind. A lot can change between beta and RTM.

  • Yep we will also start looking into VS2008. Anyways 2008 does support most of the things that are available in vs2005.

  • Stick with 2005, SQL 2008 will not be stable until 2009. The golden rule with everything MicroSoft is to wait a year after the final version is released. You'll only run into a ton of problems and headaches if you do it anytime before then.

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