Visual Studio is more than just "dead weight."

A coworker of mine uninstalled VS from his computer because he thought it just slowed things down during start up. He never had to use it for his projects anyway because they were always in PHP.

Today, however, he had to work with ASP .NET and DotNetNuke. He was using notepad to attempt to debug the web application and was getting nowhere fast. So, I decided to intervene and stop the pain by installing VS on his computer and showing him Intellisense, Dynamic Help and VS's debugging tools (breakpoints, tracepoints, etc.).

So at the end of the lesson, he learned that VS is more than just "dead weight."