Professional software developers, do most of you use Visual Studio???

Question

I am a CS student in college at a major university and they teach us tons of C++ using G++ and emacs...and I was wondering...in the real cooperate world do a majority of developers use Visual Studio??? It seems like every job listing says "knowledge of Visual Studio required".....and i feel like I'm wasting my time using emacs and g++ for school.....would it be difficult to transition from the simple environment of svn, g++, and emacs, into visual studio???

Thanks.

Answer 1

All the Universities hate Microsoft. But you are right, as soon as you look for a job, you'll most likely be in a Microsoft environment.



Visual Studio .Net is the platform you will most likely be using. It wouldn't hurt to start using it on your own. I would especially look into C# in addition to C++...



As far as wasting your time, as I mentioned above, all the Universities are that way, so keep working hard. The concepts are all you really need to understand. The rest is just syntax.



Good luck.

Answer 2

If you are programming C++ or any of the .net Languages in a windows environment ... yes. There was a time when the Borland IDE was an option, but those days are over (which doesn't mean Borland isn't good).



I have been a programmer for several companies using microsoft technology for almost 12 years now ... I actually haven't seen anybody using anything else than Visual Studio.

Answer 3

You'll want to publish your project to get an install program. Depending on what version of Visual Studio you are using you may or may not have very many options you can set. Express Edition is VERY limited in what you can customize in the installer. Also if you are using this version you need to understand that it is only for non commercial use. Your best bet is to go to MSDN and search for information about publishing your project. It would take entirely to much time and space to try and explain it all here.

Answer 4

we have about 20 C/C++ developers here; our software compiles on many different operating systems with different compilers, linkers etc.



we use Makefiles for compiling all the stuff.



everyone uses his own editor - i use vi, my manager uses emacs, some of us use visual studio.



i don't really like visual studio - the project settings are weird and buggy. the debugger is good, though.

Answer 5

visual studio is a environment + tool for programming.

it provides different headers/libraries which help us to make our code simple.

you must know what libraries are .

if you know the basic way of implementing c++, in any environment its no problem.

you can get to another easily.

no prob dude.

Answer 6

well as far as i can tell you. if you are comfortable using visual studio or find it easier then keep using it. as far as work places, depends on the job you go on. they most likely use visual studio. or they might have something else.