Programming & Development Software - Product Reviews

craig_shelley - (December 04, 2003) The only reason I didn't give this product five stars is because I don't have recent experience with alternative development environments for Windows or other GUI's. I enjoyed working with this product. It has been 14 years since I've written programs (Macintosh, Windows 2.x and Windows 3.0). It is impressive how extensive and useful this development environment is. I bought the product to do source-code debugging of Visual Basic for Scripting programs. It will be useful for this purpose. However, I went through the tutorial booklet which focuses on creating Windows applications. The booklet is a bit on the wordy side but with one minor exception, it was correct and

hellmutt - (October 05, 2004) I was a user of Visio 2002 prior to upgrading. I am really enjoying the upgrade to 2003 Pro. I'm a networking professional, so all I really use this product for is rack diagrams, logical network layouts, and physical network diagrams. This product really performs well. It gets 4 stars, it would be 5 stars if it were a bit less expensive.

aafflyer - (January 25, 2004) The main problem I had when deciding whether to buy this product was whether to spend the extra $50 or so to get the version with the Flash Pro. I decided to spend the extra money given the more export options available when using Flash Pro, not to mention to countless other features. If you are serious about learning to do state of the art web development, this product is a must buy. To get up to speed on the product use I suggest you find a nearby community college and take a course. Most community college courses are relatively inexpensive, and you will find that having someone to ask for assistance will aid in your learning of the product. And besides, since you saved money

mrsjohn - (10/09/2008) This control is not x86 compatible. If you ever care about this, don't buy the product. Their support is horrible. You can't talk to support, only email is available. Half of the emails bounce.

applegate123 - (06/12/2008) We recently upgraded from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2006. The development interface has changed greatly. The biggest problem is finding widget attributes in the Object Inspector. In Delphi 7, they were alphabetical and more easily found. Generally we like the newer environment and it works well except for the unexplained errors on exit.

DrZ - (01/27/2008) Overall I've been pretty satisfied with this MSDN subscription. This is my 5th year of renewal. I like having access to all the different Microsoft development tools, operating systems, documentation, etc. The initial buy-in price is a little steep, but the renewals are not too bad. The cost is easily justified if you use the software every day like I do.