Same here... W7+VS2008 is a lot better combination than Vista+VS2005 was for me.
As for Intellisense, I have not had any problems with it on my new box, but I rely on Visual Assist anyway so maybe I'm not seeing the problems you are running into. Or, maybe I just have more hotfixes and service packs installed. (shrug). On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 14:42, Dimitri Glazkov <dglaz...@chromium.org>wrote: > > Sounds pretty rough -- no wonder you don't like it :). For what it's > worth, I use VS2008 as my primary and don't see any of these issues. > > :DG< > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mike Belshe <mbel...@google.com> wrote: > > I've been using VS2008 on Win7 for the last month or so. > > I hate it. > > Problems: > > 1) Stepping in the debugger is SOOOOOOO slow. I am thinking about going > > back to VS2005. > > 2) If you turn on Intellisense, it crashes like crazy very regularly. > I've > > turned off intellisense, but it is a big loss in productivity to do so > > I strongly recommend against VS2008; do others have these problems? > > Mike > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <b...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > >> > >> FYI. > >> VS2008 builds with /MP by default, and it's well supported, so when > >> present there's no reason for us to not use it by default. Note that you > can > >> still force VS2005 by setting GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2005 in your environment. > >> Thanks Brad! > >> -Ben > >> > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: <b...@chromium.org> > >> Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:26 PM > >> Subject: Re: Switching vs2008 to be preferred when present. > >> To: bradnel...@google.com > >> Cc: gyp-develo...@googlegroups.com > >> > >> > >> LGTM > >> > >> http://codereview.chromium.org/341041 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
