I picked the one I've attempted to use and gave up because the Ux was not acceptable. I don't remember what I used as a replacement, but it was not written in Java.

>Picking the one I had in mind for "piggish" start up and runtime behaviour is close to cheatin' ;-))
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>In the last 5 years I used Eclipse, Netbeans and xDev3 - not one comes VS prof in all areas. But if you decide depending on the project
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>xDev3 for Access/vfp/CS likeness
>Netbeans for VB6 / VS screenpainting and memory databinding
>Eclipse for backend / large project
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>the differences grow much smaller.
>If you compare the cost free versions, VS will have areas showing weakness where perhaps one or two of the java packages is stronger.
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>IIRC US school grades: B+ vs. C- for VS prof vs. Eclipse overall, B- vs. C+ on VS [free] vs. Java dev tool picked according to task.