Just got it tonight, and have been playing around in it. Looks OK so far. Its a LOT different than VC 6 (yea, I use an ancient compiler). Am wondering if any of you have tried it yet.
It can be found
HERE and the needed SDK
HERE.
Not interested in a Linux vs. Windoze arguement, rather whether or not this is a good IDE/compiler, and any of your experiences with it.
I tried it on Fritzbot, with the speed optimizations to the max, and the bots started to have some weird path variations - they would pick what was MOSTLY the shortest path to a goal, but with a few extra, unneeded nodes thrown in, usually only 2-3. If I turned the speed optimizations off, they worked like they did in VC6: they took the shortest path.
Weird - is it my code, or VS 2005? Anyone have any experience with this?