Thread: Is Visual Studio really good ?

Hello, yesterday I have occasion to play a little with visual studio and it wasn't nice experience .
First of all there is no option to create C project only C++, predefined C/C++ sytax is more microsoft C than standard C I would say. Even simple task like compile c code aren't obvious, and for me this program isn't easy to use. I use dev-c and it is much more simpler. At first glance it looks like VS provide nice debugger.

Could you please say what is the adventages of using Visual studio and is it worth to use it ?

Onec again in dev-c everything is more obvious and much more simpler. Dev C weight aprox 60 Mb minwhile VS 9 GB.

I don't think 'Pelles C' usage is very intuitive either.
I suggested it to a newbie and he could not figure out what to do with it.
Neither could I..(over the phone).

Same person had no problems with codeblocks.

I agree that visual studio is not intended for pure C, it's a heavy tool for C++ and not much of a bonus for regular old C.
I use codeblock and dev-c++ and they're great because they're simple, although dev-c++ makes a lot of trouble when trying to add costume libraries from the outside.

I've created a lot of console programs in C using Visual Studio. When creating a project, click on next, clear the check box(es) under empty project, then set the empty project check box. After this, then go to project, then add existing item to include your C source file.

Originally Posted by stahta01

If doing only C and NOT c++; the past suggest was try Pelles C for Windows Pelles C - Home.

Note: I have NOT really tried it; but, I feel I have to recommend it since, commontater is no longer on this board.

Tim S.

Over the last couple of days I've been using Pelles C after using codeblocks and found it a pretty similar experience. Plus it allows a choice between 32 bit and 64 bit and the c99 or c11 standards. Haven't used it for large projects yet but liking it so far.

Originally Posted by MartinR

not to mention there is no Save as option o.0 VS has nice feature of project cotrol and debugging but is it worh the price ?

PS: VS has a problem including simple <stdio.h>

Warning 1 warning C4627: '#include <stdlib.h>': skipped when looking for precompiled header use documents\visual studio 2013\projects\consoleapplication7\consoleapplicati on7\consoleapplication7.cpp 216 1 ConsoleApplication7

Visual Studio express is free. The error you're getting seems related to precompiled headers, which can be avoided by choosing "empty project" when creating a project (I explained how to do this in my previous post).