Suitability of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for development?

The licence prohibits it. The WinDP and the associated vNext tools are free- Microsoft would obviously want you to pay. When you download the tools, you agree to the licence terms, which includes not using it in production Another obvious thing is that the C++ Intellisense is more than a tad buggy.

The licence prohibits it. The WinDP and the associated vNext tools are free- Microsoft would obviously want you to pay. When you download the tools, you agree to the licence terms, which includes not using it in production.

Another obvious thing is that the C++ Intellisense is more than a tad buggy.

It seems better than VS 2010 Intellisense for C++. – Seth Carnegie Oct 8 at 13:57 Doesn't matter whether your software is free or not. The license still prohibits its use for production software.

– DeCaf Oct 8 at 13:58 @DeCaf Well, what does production mean in this case? You giving it out to other people? – Seth Carnegie Oct 8 at 13:58 1 @Seth: Try it out.

If you find any bugs report it to Microsoft. That's one of the main purposes of the developer preview. – DeCaf Oct 8 at 14:03 1 Of course it's not only about paying - I'd wager (without any inside knowledge) that it has to do with liability.

Saying "go ahead and use this in production" could be interpreted as giving some form of guarantee of correctness... And I guess microsoft doesn't want the headaches that might offer. – Max Oct 8 at 14:39.

There is still work to be done before I would want to use the preview tools all day. The Metro stuff (C++/CX) especially is riddled with red-wigglies that claim something is wrong, but when you press F7 the solution builds without errors and runs fine. If you're using the Ultimate version, you may not find that as often, but I think you will find it.As for whether the compiler currently generates code that is incorrect, everyone hopes that it emits correct code, but of course the WHOLE POINT of the dev preview is to find out whether it does or not.

So nobody can answer you. Spending some time on Connect looking at bugs others have submitted might give you a feel for whether your areas have a lot of bug reports against them.An absence of reports is ambiguous, of course -- maybe your areas are rock solid, maybe no-one on Connect is exercising them.

Well I'm not going to use Metro anyway, so that's no problem, but I do hope there isn't any code generation problems :( I actually already got an erroneous error about using for_each with an anonymous function, something about not being able to use templates with local structs (wasn't even using local structs), but the code compiled and ran correctly in VS 2010. I can't create a minimal code snippet that repros the problem though, so I haven't submitted it yet. – Seth Carnegie Oct 18 at 22:13.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.