Microsoft Development Environments

Posted by Nat Tuck Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:37:00 GMT

In spite of my attempts to avoid it, I’ve been doing some Windows development and evaluation of Microsoft technologies. Getting a Windows development environment together is quite a challenge. Initially, I thought that it was more a C/C++ issue than a Microsoft issue - putting together a solid C/C++ dev environment with an IDE and non-platform libraries is non-trivial anywhere. But… that turned out to not be entirely accurate.

My experience with Microsoft development so far is well summarized by this error message:

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