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Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Visual Studio to Eclipse – get comfortable making a transition

IBM DeveloperWorks is a goldmine for fabulous information – here’s a new Eclipse starter article for those coming from a Visual Studio .NET IDE environment.

I actually did quite a bit of .NET programming back in the day (even had a very popular tutorial up at DotNetJohn.com). Can you believe it? Anyway, transitioning from .NET to Java is a bit awkward, even worse is trying to understand a different worklow in Eclipse than what you’re used to in the VS environment. I think the brightest part of the Microsoft portfolio is the VS suite of tools – hands down. However, there are many issues outside of usability that tend to entice developers to drop VS and go somewhere else. If you’re a VS-oriented person and looking to dabble in Eclipse, this one is for you. I will admit up front, it’s VERY basic and if you’re looking for language-specific build or project management types of information, you may want to do a bit more searching on the site for deeper articles.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-visualstudio/?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=NLOS