Aaron would like to know "who isn't using Visual Studio and why you prefer your current set of development tools to VS? What can we do to make Visual Studio more compelling to you personally?"
First off, I would like to say that I AM currently using Visual Studio 2003 for my projects. Visual Studio is a great product, with a tremendous amount of upside, but like everything else in life, it has its flaws. I started using VS2003 a few months back, and before that I was hooked on the Web Matrix.
Here are some of my gripes with Visual Studio:
Resource Hog
Web Matrix is a few Megs in size, while Visual Studio spans itself across an entire DVD. Translation - You better have a beefy system with at least 256mb of ram?I wouldn't even think twice about installing VS on my Celeron 700mhz.
Leave my HTML alone!
I dread going into the designer of Visual Studio; no I take that back - I avoid it at all costs. Visual Studio is the perfect gentleman when it comes to your .NET language code, but will kick your HTML to the curb.
There goes my savings
Unless you're a college student who is lucky enough to get a free copy (Like I was, at one point), or working for Microsoft, you're going to be paying an arm and two legs to obtain a copy. It's extremely difficult for a young developer to get their hands on Visual Studio Professional, and we're often left on the cold streets of the freeware world?but if software like Web Matrix is part of that world, it might not be so bad after all.
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