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Migrating from MSVC 6.0 to Studio 2005?

Posted by Cliff on from the pitfalls-from-the-commons dept.

greywar asks: "While the preferred method would be simply use Linux, unfortunately my company is using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 with C++. I have been asked to recomend if we should upgrade to the new upcoming visual studio 2005. Has anyone got any real life experience with moving a project of about 220,000 lines of code, 60,000 lines of comments from the old MSVC to the new Studio 2005 which is currently in Beta? What benefits are there, and what things do we lose? What problems will occur?"

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  1. what? concerns about MS compatibility? by yagu · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure your 60,000 lines of comments will port to the new environment okay. (But I actually have an example of where they didn't.)

  2. real life experience? by Yogurt+Earl · · Score: 2, Funny

    real life experience?

    Nope, only work related experience.
    Sorry I couldn't help.

  3. Comments are for wimps. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    grep -v -e "^\/\/" oldfoo.c > newfoo.c

  4. One Tip... by GypC · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... before moving your production code to any environment that is still in beta, you must destroy all of your backups.

  5. Some unfixed bugs still ... by twoflower · · Score: 4, Funny
    What problems will occur?
    Make sure you read KB3090309, "KNOWN ISSUE: Earth crashes into Sun" before upgrading.
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