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Interesting poll on the use of Microsoft IDE's

Gill Cleeren

.net | Visual Studio.net

February 11, 2008

Today, I was reading the CodeProject's newsletter and I noticed an interesting poll they were doing on the use of the different IDE's of Microsoft people are using today. Here's a copy of it.

What was (or is) your favourite Microsoft IDE?

Survey period: 4 Feb 2008 to 10 Feb 2008

We know we missed a few, but during the evolution of The Code Project these were the ones most used by our members.

Option	Votes	%
Visual Studio 2005	1472	42.97
Visual Studio 2008	971	28.34
Visual Studio 6.0	651	19.00
Visual Studio .NET 2003	213	6.22
Other	58	1.69
Visual C++ 4.0	30	0.88
Visual Studio .NET (2002)	18	0.53
Visual Studio 97	12	0.35
Total	3425	100%

Now, as was to be expected, the largest part is still using Visual Studio 2005. While 2008 is not actually released to the public (it will in about 2 weeks), already over 1 out of every 4 is using it (and claiming it their favorite IDE for that matter!). Personally, I can only applaud this, as it shows people are happy with the way 2008 works.

What strikes me more however, is the number of people that's still using Visual Studio 6. Almost 20%! And come to think of it: this is a poll done by CodeProject: people reading this particular site are not your regular developers most of the time, but more the "hardcore" devvers.

Let's hope these people will all soon have the chance to upgrade their daily work environment to a much more modern IDE like VS 2005 or VS 2008.

Just today, I was having a discussion on the topics covered at TechDays: Tom Mertens said that many, many developers are still using "old" technology. This graph only shows he's right...

Posted on: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:13:30 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00) | Comments [2]

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:25:30 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I agree with Tom. A lot of VB6 windows apps never had a real compelling reason to move to dotnet. In fact WPF was the only reason we decided to rewrite our system with dotnet. If you were doing ASP or C++ you had a better reason to move, but VB6 not so much. Sure dotnet had advantages over VS6 but nothing that justified the effort to move. Making your windows form a little prettier just doesn't do it.

Rick Eberle

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:15:54 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I didn't say that "many many developers are still using 'old' technologies", I said not all developers are immediately adopting all latest technologies like Silverlight, .NET Framework 3.5, etc... That's the reason that TechDays content should not only consist of only the brand new stuff, but also focus on general "Best Practices" sessions, etc...

Tom Mertens

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2/4/2012 5:52:35 PM

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