I remember noting somewhere that there are compatibility issues between Dragon and Visual Studio.

I use DNS Professional v10 and am wanting to put Visual Studio 2008 Express on the same machine. Does anybody use this combination and if so, can they let me know of any conflict problems between the two applications. I'm not planning on dictating code by voice (I know it can be done, but I think I'm going to type that!) but do want the two running on the same system.

 Further to that, I'm planning on doing some simple VB stuff that I'd like to activate by voice, does anyone have any experience creating simple VB applications for vocal control and perhaps give me any tips or any pitfalls to watch out for?

Many thanks in advance,

Adam Burgess.

I can't confirm compatibility issues between DNS 10 Pro and Visual Studio 2008. I have both installed and have been running them at the same time. Did not notice any problems.

As for your 2nd question, someone else will have to chime in. I'm still at the beginning of my VB book...

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Thanks for the reassurance on compatibility. I don't want to go and install VS and find that Dragon keels over and dies or anything silly like that!

I've a bit of VB experience myself, but never done anything on a large scale so I'm probably in a pretty similar position to yourself!

I am in about the same position as bk82, but I have released a couple of utilities written in Visual Basic (they manipulate MP4 files). Until just now I had not used Dragon NaturallySpeaking (10.1 Pro 64-bit) in conjunction with Visual Basic. Just for fun, I launched the Visual Basic editor by opening a project which I recently created. This project opens a user dialogue -- the dialogue provides various controls (checkboxes, textboxes, buttons, comboboxes and listboxes) which allows the user to manipulate MP4 filenames based on the track names embedded in the file.

I was able to vocally control the Visual Basic IDE quite naturally. I did not have great success dictating code, it was a bit tedious -- the built-in text editor does not play nicely with DNS [it works just as poorly there as it does on this forum], so I switched to DragonPad and dictated the following:

Private Sub TestFileCase (ByRef littleVariable) {

 For i as Integer = 0 to 10

By carefully dictating the custom names (i.e. TestFileCase and littleVariable) as a single phrase then saying "compound that" I was able to use my normal coding style.

I was able to use the menus in the IDE to launch and debug my code. I made no special provisions within the code for speech recognition yet all of the gadgets responded appropriately when I said their name (where "name" is the text associated with the gadget on the user dialogue).

-Edgar
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