visual studio 2008 vs 2010

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I have just started a project where teh existing codebase is all in VS 2008 ... My dev machine and entire lab is on 2010 - can I safely stay on 2010 and integrate with their dev team or am I just asking for a headache and do i need to DOWNGRADE? ugh

Posted 30-Sep-11 10:59am

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André Kraak · Answer 1 · 2011-09-30T11:08:00

See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/vsprereleaseannouncements/thread/dae62b32-f526-41a2-9878-78ecb338ff8c[^]

If you continue to target the .NET 3.5 framework, you should be OK with the code files. The problem is that the VS 2010 conversion tool changes the project files.

So you would need to have two copies of the project file(s), ones that you use and ones for VS 2008.

Hope this helps.

YandyZM · Answer 2 · 2011-09-30T13:02:00

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If you only use C# .NET code in your project and not other 3rd party assamblies or dependencies, it is a good choice to update to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.

Posted 30-Sep-11 13:02pm

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Philippe Mori 30-Sep-11 20:32pm

And since VS 2010 supports multi-targetting, it might be a good idea anyway... except maybe for those that are doing C++/CLI since Intellisence was not available in that version. At least, it is available in VS 11 Preview and it works better than it was working in VS 2008.

Well if you have a slow computer, an older version might be a bit faster... but on adequate hardware, VS 2010 works smoothly.

Philippe Mori · Answer 3 · 2011-09-30T12:12:00

For my application, I have tried to do maintenance (fix bugs and do some improvement) of the current version in VS 2008 using .NET 2.0 and do main development using VS 2010 and .NET 4.0.

But with time, differences were accumulating so in the end, I decide to do all developement in VS 2010. I have taken the VS 2010 projects, target them to .NET 2.0, remove the stuff not ready for release and take that for maintenance.

Since I have done that, it is much easier to keep projects in sync when bugs are fixed or some minor improvement are done for the released versions. In fact, I use PureCM for source control and most of the time, changes are automatically merged (but this does not work well for auto-generated files when we need to keep some difference as often the auto-generated code is not very stable).

A good new is that VS 11 Preview is able to open VS 2010 projects and vice-versa.

In my case, it was also problematic because the format of C++ projects has changed...

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