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Out with the old no more

I've done a resonable amount of development in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Studio. And I also watch the Dot Net Show on MSDN so when Microsoft Visual Studio .Net was annouced and all its glory was shown on the Dot Net show I could not wait to get my hands on it. And finally I found a copy, which was a beta version but considering you have to have a MSDN subscription to get those I was pleased indeed.

I installed it, destroying over 1GB of my laptop's precious hard disc space and opened the new studio up - the truth is, it sucks. Of couse that is just my opinion and I am sure most developers would disagree. But when they said it would be so different I thought it was going to be a good different. Now I feel that, that was a wrong assumption. I still find myself programming away in Visual Basic 6.0.

What exactly is so great about it? I am usually hanging around on http://www.fallennation.com/forums if anyone cares to discuss it with me. But the end result is - I don't like it.