As Microsoft was the main sponsor of the competition, we were developing our software using MS Visual C++. Having such a fast, reliable and programmer-friendly environment, writing over 33 KLOC of C++ code was nothing but pure joy. So here are just some examples of Visual's absolutely incredible reliability and ease of use...

full size screenshot >>		Sometimes, Visual is unable to compile its own header files. Nothing is perfect...
full size screenshot >>		But as long as you experience the "DEBUG_NEW syndrome" - be sure your Visual is doing well. Just delete all your precompiled headers and spend next 15 minutes on recompiling the project.
full size screenshot >>		When everything seems to go smoothly - still a programmers'-nightmare-dialog can pop up...