Upgrading from VC Studio 6.0
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I thinking of upgrading from VC Studio 6.0. Is it worth upgrading to VC 2008? I really just use C++. What would be the best... 2005 or 2008? Does the new MFC update work on 2005? What is the up side and down side to upgrading? Any opinions? What about VC C++ Express? Thanks for your time. Tim
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I thinking of upgrading from VC Studio 6.0. Is it worth upgrading to VC 2008? I really just use C++. What would be the best... 2005 or 2008? Does the new MFC update work on 2005? What is the up side and down side to upgrading? Any opinions? What about VC C++ Express? Thanks for your time. Tim
Well when you have 2008 is better than 2005 and for other question this link has good info for you Microsoft Visual Studio Express[^].
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I thinking of upgrading from VC Studio 6.0. Is it worth upgrading to VC 2008? I really just use C++. What would be the best... 2005 or 2008? Does the new MFC update work on 2005? What is the up side and down side to upgrading? Any opinions? What about VC C++ Express? Thanks for your time. Tim
Member 260880 wrote:
What about VC C++ Express?
It is great (because it's free). Anyway it has NO
MFCand NO resource editor. :)If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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I thinking of upgrading from VC Studio 6.0. Is it worth upgrading to VC 2008? I really just use C++. What would be the best... 2005 or 2008? Does the new MFC update work on 2005? What is the up side and down side to upgrading? Any opinions? What about VC C++ Express? Thanks for your time. Tim
May as well go for 2008 as that is what's out.
Member 260880 wrote:
What about VC C++ Express?
Have a look at the feature comparisons on Microsoft's site. If you have been using MFC or ATL then the Express version is no good. Also Google on breaking changes in visual C++ and look at what's changed between 6 and 7, 7 and 8 and so on.
Kevin
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I thinking of upgrading from VC Studio 6.0. Is it worth upgrading to VC 2008? I really just use C++. What would be the best... 2005 or 2008? Does the new MFC update work on 2005? What is the up side and down side to upgrading? Any opinions? What about VC C++ Express? Thanks for your time. Tim
Visual Studio 2005 offers a better development environment than VC++ 6.0 and a vastly superior C++ compiler. The MFC support takes a while to get used to and is in some ways worse than with VC++ 6.0. Visual Studio 2008 builds on this, but is still the proverbial bastard step-child for C++ support. One other issue is that if you ship your MFC using DLLs, the SxS (side-by-side) compilation in VS 2005 and 2008 makes deployment a real headache. On top of that, the lastest MFC release DLLs are massively bloated due to the addition of the BCG libraries (this was a very idiotic decision in a long line of stupid decisions by the MFC "architects".)
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