Charles Petzold: "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? Find out tonight at our NYCDOTNETDEV's UG monthly meeting.
Visual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rather than augmenting it? Charles Petzold dissects the code generated by Visual Studio; analyzes the appalling programming practices it perpetuates; rhapsodizes about the joys, frustrations, and satisfactions of unassisted coding; and speculates about the radical changes that Avalon will bring.
Charles Petzold is a programmer and freelance writer specializing in Windows application programming. He is best known for his book Programming Windows (5th edition, Microsoft Press, 1998), but he has also written three books on .NET programming (with more to come) and a unique exploration of digital technologies entitled Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.