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Yeh, maybe wrong choice of word.
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I am not sure it is safe to uninstall visual C++ 6 as I have 100s of thousands of lines of code in projects that will only compile under that version. Same with 2003.
As for 2005 and above porting will probably be simpler for multiple reasons. One is that I use CMake now for my project file generation and do not put any .sln or .vcproj files in my source control at all.
John
modified on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:21 PM
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Why do you want to let it go?
They can run side by side and IMO, you never know when you might need it.
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Just don't see the point in having both on there if i don't need to.
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It's as safe as houses.
Find it stable so far.
Two heads are better than one.
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Thats good to hear. another 'to go' then.
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Our policy has always been to maintain a product with the tool chain used to develop it originally. For that reason, we still have VS2003 installed, as most of our legacy applications were developed using it.
There is simply too much regression testing required when you update tools. Compiler changes typically require significant source changes. For example, our library of TCP/IP socket communications, threading, and other tools were ported from VS2003 to VS2008 for a new product. This took us a month, along with a fair amount of bug fixes and tweaks since then. Porting our entire legacy product line wouldn't generate any customer benefit, and would entail significant risk.
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If you work on Smart Device projects (compact framework/CE apps) then absolutely... they seem to be completely MIA in 2010 as far as I can tell. Pages found via Google suggest these projects and CF have been dropped in favour of the Win 7 Phone SDK (not yet released), which would be fine except we have line of business applications running on barcode scanners, thin clients and other hardware with CE installed that aren't phones and certainly aren't Win Phone 7.
The same pages from Google also seem to indicate that if the Smart Device projects are a requirement for you, stick to VS2008 
Opening a Smart Device .csproj file in VS2010 just says the project type isn't supported, and it won't update it
Of course, if you don't have that issue and all your add-in's etc. run ok, then it should be safe to move to 2010.
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It depends on what you're using it for. For example VS2010 can't be used to work on BizTalk 2009 at present. Also, if you're working in a team with people using previous versions, it's best to keep everyone on the same version; so either all upgrade together, or all stick to 2008. I think that OOTB visual studio, being used for standard PODN (plain old dot net) development, should be fine though.
You could just keep the installs for VS2008, or keep a virtual machine image with it on, to call up in case you hit issues down the line, then you're pretty much safe whatever.
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Wah! I just got management talked into VS2008 instead of VS2005! 
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That is why I develop in Virtual Machines now - my Visual Studio 6 one now rarely gets powered up, like wise VS2003, VS2005 and VS2008 still very active depending on client. This way I know that if I ever have to go back to do some fix on real old code - even if I have changed machines many times since then I can fire up a Virtual Machine and go into the project and update without faffing around.
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I ran across an interesting problem this week.
I was trying to call a method on a BizTalk web service from my own web service on another server. I was able to generate a proxy with VS2010. But, I couldn’t successfully make a method call to it. I kept getting this error.
"An error occurred while loading attribute 'XmlSerializerFormatAttribute' on method"…
I wrote a test app and ran it from my machine and everything worked fine.
It turns out that the proxy that VS2010 generates requires .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Which my machine had, but the server with my web service did not have.
Once I installed SP1 on the server, everything was hunckie dorie (I have no idea how to spell that).
This web site finally clued me in.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wcf/thread/7d2b9c3b-61ff-443b-bee7-38d28f54c466
Scott H.
Scott H.
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Its really amazing how Pakistan always manages to come back so strongly.....if there is one team that can really bounce back when they are at their real lowest it is them!
Australia at 30/2 chasing 191 can now start worrying....
*Edit*
Australia at 62/4 chasing 191 can now start praying....
*Edit*
modified on Friday, May 14, 2010 2:17 PM
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What a game!
It is interesting to watch games when India is not playing  .
Poor Pakistan
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It was a good game. Pakistan played really well and Australia played even better.
Fantastic.
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What a win!!!!!!!!
But I missed it
I thought Pakistan will be in final and Sleep early
Morning news paper I read and I was shocked.
Really a greate winning
Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim
So Smile Please
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Ultimately Australia won ...
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Once again, a lack of journalistic integrity by not having pictures. Either that, or they were trying to save us from something horrid.
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 It also allowed me to post the story here.
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... the heroic hottie had a full audience of residents while she battled the blaze.
I guess they didn't help because the sight left them ...
Now, how does a palm tree accidentally catch on fire? I've lived in the tropics and have never seen that happen.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: how does a palm tree accidentally catch on fire?
It says she is smoking hot? That will probably do it.
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: Now, how does a palm tree accidentally catch on fire?
I wonder if it was one of those to which someone has attached 'pretty' lights. A short circuit maybe?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: how does a palm tree accidentally catch on fire?
I don't think it "accidentally" caught on fire. During the LA riots, a number of palm trees were set on fire, and it was tough to put them out; they went up like roman candles.
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I wonder if that works in the US. Time for me to find some matches and enjoy the show. 
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