Re: justifucation for visual studio
Jeff Kish wrote:
I have to write a dll to interface between an old product and a
vendor.
I don't believe there is any .net or active X involved.
I'm supposed to use Visual Studio... probably the latest and greatest
one.. I have VC 6.0 already.
You need to find out what kind of interfacing you're supposed to do,
and which of the applications is going to load your DLL. That will
govern the settings you should use, like what kind of the RT library
your DLL is supposed to link in, etc.
Can someone give me justification on why I should buy visual studio
for c++ rather than using the free version?
I can't. I don't have enough information. Assumption is the mother
of all f***-ups.
as far as I can tell they both have a debugger, and the only thing I
can see off hand (I know this depends on the work involved) is that
the pro version gives the user the ability to use the T-SQL debugger.
Creation of a DLL using the free version is a bit convoluted, but
possible, IIRC.
Is even that a correct assumption?
Probably not. Microsoft has comparison matrix on their web-site.
I actually don't need the T-SQL debugger for the job, but I have
other things that would be easier if I had the debugger available.
_A_ debugger is available in the free version. It's actually quite
decent.
V
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