Will Steve Ballmer Speak At WWDC Keynote? 280
truthsearch writes "An analyst reports that not only will CEO Steve Jobs return to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference stage — he missed last year for medical reasons — but he will be joined there by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdrey said that Microsoft has been given seven minutes during Jobs' keynote to talk about Visual Studio 2010. Chowdrey said that a new version of the development tools software will support native applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS." Update: 05/27 19:17 GMT by T : As reader theappwhisperer points out, Microsoft has responded to this rumor via the company's Twitter feed with an unequivocal No.
Developers, developers, developers... (Score:4, Informative)
MS Official Twitter account says Nope (Score:2, Informative)
http://twitter.com/microsoft
Re:People actually like Visual Studio? (Score:1, Informative)
XCode is GARBAGE and VS is the best IDE on the planet. Say what you will about MS but they make the best developer tools in the business.
Re:I didn't find Xcode in any way deficient (Score:3, Informative)
having to manually set up outlets and actions in the code so that they can be referenced by ib seems counterintuitive to that history. with vs on the other hand, it "just happens". i.e., double click on a button in the ui view and you get its onclick event handler. if it doesn't exist, it gets created.
XCode and IB remind me of developing with Borland C++ circa 1995 or so. Create the GUI in a seperate app and then load a project in the main IDE to code and compile. VS.NET (And VB before it) simplify it. Create GUI objects, double click on the object and access the code for the events behind that function.
you ain't kidding on that. even compared to mfc, apple wins. how microsoft managed to promote mfc for years without registry and security attribute classes representing critical aspects of the underlying operating system is beyond me.
MFC was a joke. I never bothered to learn how to program with it. Win32 isn't exactly intuitive to build an OO framework on. Borland managed to do it somewhat better with VCL, but it was never popular. dotNet works well, but having to do anything low level with Win32 requires some ugly looking code.
Re:huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Whoever wrote that method did a poor job of naming it. The proper way to do so would be:
[obj setVectorWithX: x, Y:y, Z:z]
Re:huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Technically, Objective C's parameters aren't named, they are just embedded in the method name.
[obj setVector: x y: y z: z] is a different method to [obj setVector: x z: z y: y]
Also, your assertion that the first parameter name is omitted is completely spurious. No Objective-C programmer would name the method as you have done. They would use
[obj setVectorX: x y: y z: z];