Microsoft Corp. last week announced the final beta of its Visual Studio .Net 2003 product -formerly known by the code name Everett- and released its .Net Compact Framework. New features include: Availability of .Net Compact Framework, Improved scalability with support for up to 32 processors, Improved performance, Support for new Web services specifications: WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments, 98 percent conformance with the International Organization for Standardization’s C++ standard, Integration of Visual J#.
Visual Studio .Net Enters Final Beta Phase
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Which is that Visual C++ finally becomes “visual.” There is now a forms-based RAD tool, so now you don’t have to rely on using one from C# or VB.NET. [Another substantial feature for C++ is the support of partial specialization in the C++ compiler (about time.)]
It’s just a shame this wasn’t available many years ago. The first thing that puzzled me when I first started using MSVC was “what is VISUAL about this?”
I’d really love to see something like that integrated into Kdevelop for at least QT/C++ stuff. I’d also wonder if MS makes available that part of the tool to 3rd-party tool/language vendors to customize – a VS.NET/QT forms builder would be awesome.
Have you ever tried Qt Designer? I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but in Qt 3.1, it’s quite a nice tool.
I have used the latest QT designer, but it isn’t quite up to par to make a long story short. Hopefully it’ll get there and become more integrated with Kdevelop eventually, but of course I’d have liked it yesterday.