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So, I need to upgrade some old code to VS2008. Yes, I know VS2008 old as well, but I'm OS constrained. It's an embedded system (CE 5.0), so you do what you have to do.
Silly me, I took a project and opened it in VS2008. It said, "We need to convert that project. Would you like to proceed?" Thinking this would save me some time, I hit the yes button where upon my project was mangled into some unrecognizable form it was simply stunning.
Does not compile. Won't link (I fixed the compiler errors). Bat crap crazy build errors that are all due to the wizard not even bothering to look at the old project settings. I mean, wth  Microsoft, if you are going to release a black wizard on us.... As near as I can tell, the ONLY thing the wizard did was to add files to a project list.
This is worse than half-baked. If I had spare time, I'd go to 2013 or 2015 and see how their wizards work.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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We can rant about the fact that Microsoft never took the opportunity back in the day of the PDA to create a decent OS, and if they did, maybe we would have something better than today's blotware Windows. Maybe if they had taken the opportunity, you would not have had this problem. Back in that timeframe they should have done a serious shakeup of Windows, just like what happened back in the late 90's when Windows NT came out.
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I actually have no issue with the OS beginning with Windows 2000. It's been quite stable sans the occasional rogue driver.
But this conversion process was written by a clerk.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It has worked pretty well, but I believe that could have used a relook with the Framework coming out. Still a lot of things that probably should have been moved to managed base could have been done, and a lot of the Windows code could probably be managed and use the Framework.
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All possibly true, except that Windows NT came out in 1993 (early 90's), not late 90's.
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As I recall, they tried to do that. That's why there was such a long delay between XP and Vista.
In the end, they had to drop a load of new features (eg: WinFS[^]) because there wasn't enough time to finish them. They ended up rushing out Vista without giving hardware manufacturers time to update their drivers, which led to hardware compatibility problems, which led to lots of negative press and poor sales.
Development of Windows Vista[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I may be pointing out the obvious - if this is a new install of VS2008, did you remember to install the service pack, and any update published after that? Even though it's old, it still needs to be patched...who knows, maybe the issue you've encountered has been fixed after the initial release...
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VS2008 has all service packs, etc. Joe (see below) mentioned if it's coming from eVC++ forget it (his words). He is correct.
Silly me. About the only way I would recommend migrating code from eVC++ is to create a stub project in VS2008 and manually add files to the project. I'm in the process of doing this now (yeah me, Sat 0600), and I hope it works.
Then there is the issue of the OEM WEC7 build, but that's not on Microsoft. I hate "how hard can it be?" projects that turn into death marches.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I know this doesn't help but when I had to "move up" my code converted and compiled with virtually no issues. It was just Hello World plus some more code but.
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Where did the code come from?
If you're updating from eVC, forget it. Updating any solution from VC++ 6.0 never really worked, nor from VS 2008 to 201x. I've had few problems with updating 201x solutions, but for everything else I've always found it better to create a brand new solution.
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bingo, yes it's coming from eVC++
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Do mathematicians prefer Sinerise or Sineset?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you keep going off on these hyperbolae, I'll have to fetch my cosh. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Neither, they keep going off at a tangent.
This space for rent
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Neither, they tend to alternate.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Is that the current trend?
/ravi
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It is indeed, it seems to have sparked a lot of interest.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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To a certain degree, I think things like this occur in waves.
/ravi
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Must resist getting in endless pun thread....
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Talk like that will only induce them into continuing. It's a sine of the times.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Ohm my I thought that this kind of conduct was acceptable.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As long as they don't have to decide by zero they don't care.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Neither, cos none of them gives a good tan.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Neither since both are adjacent. Mathematicians prefer SOHCAHTOA with cheese and bacon.
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