Moving VC7 app to VC8
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We have several VC7 MFC and ATL applications and are wondering whether to port them over to VC8. The main reason is so that we don't have a mix of development environments - some projects using vs2003 and some using vs2005. But are there any advantages as far as the libraries go - STL/ATL/MFC? I understand the main change is in the C runtime string functions to reduce buffer overflow problems. Any other changes for better or worse?
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We have several VC7 MFC and ATL applications and are wondering whether to port them over to VC8. The main reason is so that we don't have a mix of development environments - some projects using vs2003 and some using vs2005. But are there any advantages as far as the libraries go - STL/ATL/MFC? I understand the main change is in the C runtime string functions to reduce buffer overflow problems. Any other changes for better or worse?
Yes, basically if you use C string functions, you'll get a warning. Beyond that, I see no compelling reason to change, there are some breaking changes for standards, but all reasonably obscure.
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