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Why would you move to Visual Studio 2005?

16 Jan 2006 to 22 Jan 2006 There are plenty of reasons developers move to the latest platform. What are yours?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(3) CListCtrl
(2) never, because SharpDevelop is free
(2) bill says so
(1) chat
(1) .NET 2.0
(1) 64 bit support
(1) A System.Windows.Forms.ListView
(1) ajax
(1) Already Moved
(1) Because Bill Gates told me to!!
(1) Because I'm a hardcore nerd
(1) Because it Rocks!
(1) Because it's sexy!
(1) Because the bugs in VC6 compiler are fixed, and we didn't move to VS.NET yet...
(1) Because Windows Vista will force us to use .NET & we need to stay ahead of the game
(1) opencv
(1) pdl
(1) Performance increase
(1) Personal Interest
(1) pos
(1) Productivity !!!
(1) shell
(1) Simplify Windows Mobile (CE,PPC) development
(1) skipped 2003, need something new
(1) Source Code
(1) testing
(1) The chicks love it
(1) The updated STL
(1) tho]
(1) ticket
(1) To have a working Managed C++
(1) to slow!
(1) To use the improved Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003
(1) Too keep my current activities fun and challenging
(1) updated MFC
(1) XML Data editor
(1) code
(1) Easier targeting of mobile devices
(1) Enhanced Intellisense, .NET framework 2.0
(1) Fresh Cheese
(1) froum
(1) getopt_long
(1) gpa
(1) I am already at VS 2005 and i like it
(1) I got a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 RTM!!
(1) i have no idea
(1) I like the common editor for all Languages & SQL
(1) I was drunk at the time
(1) I'am already moved
(1) I'd rather not bother. I've implemented most of 2005 asp features in my own systems. Only upgrade cos I have too :(
(1) If a service pack becomes available for 2003 and 2005
(1) I'm not moving to Visual Studio6
(1) I'm stupid enough to keep buying every cosmetic Micro$oft upgrade
(1) Im using SharpDevelop
(1) image background
(1) Image Processing
(1) interfacing PC to processor
(1) It makes sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(1) It was build with better user-interventions
(1) its cool
(1) It's got a beauty of a CListCtrl
(1) javascript
(1) javascript trwwview
(1) kitty fshing
(1) lpt
(1) MFC C++
(1) mfc tutorial
(1) multimediagames
(1) never, because SharpDevelop is for free