Hello,

Maybe you should check search option in this forum. There was some interesting stuff regarding VS.NET and VS 6 (upgrade issues). You might find interesting stuff in previous posts.

I am probably not proffessional but here is some toughts on this:

- if you want to build cross platform then stay away VS
- VS has a lot of users, plus you have MSDN library so a lot of examples floating arround - you wont get stuck with the code
- there a lot of plugins (addins) for VS.NET, many of them freeware which can be handy
- i found that CW IDE is easier to use than VS (maybe that is just me )
- CW has no wizards, like VS.NET has...for example if you create db application there are some helpers that will allow you to connect to db without writing a single line of code...well to mee this sucks, I like to do this manually, but if you are newbie it can be useful
- VS is expensive
- VS has better team intergration - that is if you develop in teams
- CW has poor support for GUI developement (i dunno if they fixed this), but the complier is much better than VS

regards,
asmith