Is VS 2022 ready for prime time?
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My organization has dozens of small C# projects, compiled in every version of VS that has been published, and some have not been recompiled in a decade (not broken, don't fix it!). Unfortunately, as time marches on, the older code is less and less likely to compile successfully in newer versions of C#/VS. I'm looking at upgrading some of the programs to either VS 2019 or 2022. Moving to VS 2022 provides a longer lifespan before it's sunsetted (01/13/2032), at which point I should be retired and it will no longer be my problem. Is VS 2022 ready for usage, or does MS need to fix more things first?
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Visual Studio has been out since 1997. C# did not appear in it until 2003 2002.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Rick York wrote:
C# did not appear in it until 2003.
Technically, C# appeared in 1988, although that version was never released: :) My History of Visual Studio (Part 1) | Microsoft Docs[^]
"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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Rick York wrote:
C# did not appear in it until 2003.
Technically, C# appeared in 1988, although that version was never released: :) My History of Visual Studio (Part 1) | Microsoft Docs[^]
"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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It was designed in 2000 and first released in 2003 : C Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
My History of Visual Studio (Part 1) | Microsoft Docs[^]:
So where am I? Ah yes, 1988. The project I’d been hired to work on was cancelled after a few months (I expect I’m in good company on that score), that project by the way was a cute variant on the C language designed for incremental compilation – it was called, cough, C#. Strangely, through the lens of 2009, it looks remarkably like what you would get if you tried to make C.Net.
"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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My organization has dozens of small C# projects, compiled in every version of VS that has been published, and some have not been recompiled in a decade (not broken, don't fix it!). Unfortunately, as time marches on, the older code is less and less likely to compile successfully in newer versions of C#/VS. I'm looking at upgrading some of the programs to either VS 2019 or 2022. Moving to VS 2022 provides a longer lifespan before it's sunsetted (01/13/2032), at which point I should be retired and it will no longer be my problem. Is VS 2022 ready for usage, or does MS need to fix more things first?
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Rick York wrote:
C# did not appear in it until 2003.
Technically, C# appeared in 1988, although that version was never released: :) My History of Visual Studio (Part 1) | Microsoft Docs[^]
"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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My organization has dozens of small C# projects, compiled in every version of VS that has been published, and some have not been recompiled in a decade (not broken, don't fix it!). Unfortunately, as time marches on, the older code is less and less likely to compile successfully in newer versions of C#/VS. I'm looking at upgrading some of the programs to either VS 2019 or 2022. Moving to VS 2022 provides a longer lifespan before it's sunsetted (01/13/2032), at which point I should be retired and it will no longer be my problem. Is VS 2022 ready for usage, or does MS need to fix more things first?
We migrated to it a week after release (always wait for at least the X.0.1 release!). We've not had any issues at all with it - it's been remarkably smooth. It'll take up more memory because they (finally) converted it to 64 bit, but there's a number of gains that were realized because of that conversion. We have a variety of applications as well, and solutions with over a hundred projects of varying types, though we've done pretty good at getting everything to be "standardized" on targeting either .Net 4.8 or .Net 6 (we did quick upgrades after release for all our .Net core based applications). I personally like it quite a bit. They cleaned up the dark mode as well so there's no longer random bright glaring controls or panels running around.
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Visual Studio has been out since 1997. C# did not appear in it until 2003 2002.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Rick York wrote:
C# did not appear in it until 2003.
My archives folder shows VS6 VS97 VS2002 (.NET 1.0) VS2003 (.NET 1.1) VS2005 (.NET 2.0) . . . When mounting the ISO for VS 2002, I can see most of files have a timestamp of January 2002. This is where .NET was introduced. C# was very much part of it.
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Rick York wrote:
C# did not appear in it until 2003.
My archives folder shows VS6 VS97 VS2002 (.NET 1.0) VS2003 (.NET 1.1) VS2005 (.NET 2.0) . . . When mounting the ISO for VS 2002, I can see most of files have a timestamp of January 2002. This is where .NET was introduced. C# was very much part of it.
Yes, 2002 is the correct year. I had all of those versions of VS except for 2002. I never used that one. I remember joining the MSDN and getting NT when it was in beta and installing VS97 on it. The next several years were very enjoyable.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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My organization has dozens of small C# projects, compiled in every version of VS that has been published, and some have not been recompiled in a decade (not broken, don't fix it!). Unfortunately, as time marches on, the older code is less and less likely to compile successfully in newer versions of C#/VS. I'm looking at upgrading some of the programs to either VS 2019 or 2022. Moving to VS 2022 provides a longer lifespan before it's sunsetted (01/13/2032), at which point I should be retired and it will no longer be my problem. Is VS 2022 ready for usage, or does MS need to fix more things first?
VS2022 have more problems with TFS and SCE then before, and of course older problems are not solved. I have problems building and COM registering dlls. Using VS2019 for that. I have problems with nesting files in Solution Explorer, it was solved in VS2019, and got broken in VS2022. Got some problems with ATL C++ project but that was fixed in an update. As you can see I'm not happy. Still, my org is trying to move some services to .NET 6 witch is not possible in VS2019.
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VS2022 have more problems with TFS and SCE then before, and of course older problems are not solved. I have problems building and COM registering dlls. Using VS2019 for that. I have problems with nesting files in Solution Explorer, it was solved in VS2019, and got broken in VS2022. Got some problems with ATL C++ project but that was fixed in an update. As you can see I'm not happy. Still, my org is trying to move some services to .NET 6 witch is not possible in VS2019.
Thanks for the feedback. In general it appears VS 2022 is fine, but from your feedback and others I've followed, there are a lot of irritating details. Everything I'm working on is either in framework 4.8 or being migrated to 4.8, so I'm not seeing a pressing need to upgrade to 2022. I am going to recommend to management that we look at .NET 6 for all future projects.
