Just as it says. What Studio do you prefer, why, what you dislike and so on. I choose VS 6.0. I can improve my choise by telling you, that many good programmers (such as NeHe, for example) are writing in VS 6.0.

EDIT: I forgot to say my dislikes in VS .NET, although they are quite simple: from the "script" design and to that damn compile log.
When you press F7, you loose focus from window, where you are writing the code, so to go on writing, you have to click on that window with mouse. :ranting:

I prefer Dev-C++, even though it leaks memory. Seems like that's a problem with all IDEs, except the Visual Studio. If I had to choose between Visual Studio and Visual Studio .NET, I'd personally prefer Visual Studio, as I'm not all too fond of .NET. If it's for a job, though, I suppose you'd be better off with .NET, how sad it may be.

uhm I've used both.
6.0 was quite fast (in startup and response)
.net created better code although it might be possible to use the compiler of .net with the ide of 6.0

In general I liked 6.0 better mainly because of the speed

Hello, dear Nick! This is my first message here. wow... So, I think it isn't correct statement of the problem. I think that many things depend on habit. For example, I had written many (maybe more than 100) programmes in Visual Studio 6, but now I write new programmes only in Visual Studio .NET. Many people shrink from difficulties caused by something new. But, objective reality is Visual Studio .NET. You must be in step with life if you want become a professional programmer. (Nick call me)

Wow!!! At last! Glad to see you! :cheers:

I gave Visual Studio 6.0 a try, it was rubbish the IDE was not bad but the compiler was. :sick:

Dev-cpp kicks behind.

or if you have Linux
G++ :w00t:

I seem to be sticking with the old VB6 forever. I heard they're developing a new VB now which is more like VB6, so probably I'll skip vb.net if that's true...

Yes. I heard something too. Something about Visual Studio 7.1... Well, let's hope it won't repeat "success" of VS .NET. Although, for somebody it was just success. Tastes differ. :)

Latest versions of VS .NET:
VS 2005 Express Edition
VS 2005 Standart Edition
VS 2005 Team System
I have only VS 2005 Express Edition now. Latest versions of VS .NET programmes based on .NET Framework 2.0. I think that it's excellent product. So, don't stand still. VS 6.0 is good, but .NET platform is present and future.

that is what microsoft wants you to believe.

I think 6.0 is used a lot more then .net as nobody wants to pay the huge amount of money required to keep up with the latest and useless developments.

C++ standard is still the same. So for making code there is no need to switch.
However if you rely on the "handy" libraries for a gui of MS then you need to upgrade

If you use a different library for you gui then there is absolute no need to upgrade