I used VA at my previous job on a medium sized project (~300K lines, 10dlls), and couldn't live without it. At interview for my current job, I mentioned it and raved about it.
Upon starting the job I found the major product was a Linux/Windows hybrid, designed by Unix guys, using makefiles for both Linux & Windows.
This is a large project (>500k lines 30dlls) built with VC6.
I set about making a dsp/dsw to ease my way in and also installed a demo version of VA-X.
Twas then I found that the majority of classes used automatically generated class definitions where most of the class definition is stored in a .dbH file which is included in the .H file.
e.g.
MY.h file
#ifndef MY_H
#define MY_H
#include "My.dbH"
public:
void more_functions();
};
#endif MY_H
My.dbH - auto generated at build time
class My_Class
{
public: // etc
This of course breaks the parser in normal intellisense as well as VA.
Recently I've tried to use VA with a standalone project (VS2005) and even then is seems not as good as before. Of course my 30day trial is now up, so I can't continue to evaluate.
So in summary, it's good, but perhaps not for a large non-VS project.
p.s. Can't wait to use it on a small VC6 project again. It's like a homecoming :-)
My Experiences with VA
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 04:22:23 AM
