Justin Vandegrift

After experiencing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, code-named Orcas, for the first time, I found myself asking, “Whats new?” For current users of the IDE, the answer initially will probably be, “Nothing.” That was my first reaction as I tested Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Except for the addition of a Test item on the […]

Eclipse Europa Needs Some Polishing”> The Eclipse project has matured as a solid IDE, but the latest version—Europa Release 3.3—is a bit rough around the edges. By now, you have probably heard of Eclipse, and if you havent used it for yourself, you are likely to know someone who has. IBMs Object Technology International group […]

Todays Integrated Development Environments have, over several generations, matured into robust tools with broad, tightly coupled, feature sets. Visual Studio, arguably the most popular of these, has bloated into a super-sized development application that provides environments for multiple languages and presents to its users a labyrinth of pop-up menus, pull-down lists and tabbed configuration panels. […]