upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to VS 2013

[Lynn McGuire]

We are thinking about upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to VS 2013.

Is there a list anywhere of gotchas?

Thanks,
Lynn

[David Lowndes]

Post by Lynn McGuire
We are thinking about upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to VS 2013.
Is there a list anywhere of gotchas?

What aspects of VS2005 do you use?

As you've posted in a VC++ forum, the C++ compiler and standard
library are more standard conforming, so there may be some parts of
your code that require changes, but they're usually minor and are
generally for the good.

You'll probably find the IDE is slower to start.

If you use the Setup/deployment projects - they're gone, though there
is now a project that's resurrected it, albeit that it doesn't support
XP generation OS's.

Dave

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by David Lowndes

Post by Lynn McGuire
We are thinking about upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to VS 2013.
Is there a list anywhere of gotchas?

What aspects of VS2005 do you use?
As you've posted in a VC++ forum, the C++ compiler and standard
library are more standard conforming, so there may be some parts of
your code that require changes, but they're usually minor and are
generally for the good.
You'll probably find the IDE is slower to start.
If you use the Setup/deployment projects - they're gone, though there
is now a project that's resurrected it, albeit that it doesn't support
XP generation OS's.
Dave

Just Visual C++. We have about 400,000 lines of C++ code in our app.

One of the things that we had to upgrade in our website C++ code when GCC was updated was changing the following:
showStuff ("this string");
where showStuff was char * and had to be upgraded to const char *. I suspect that we will see that since a lot of our C++ code was C
originally.

Post by David Lowndes
You'll probably find the IDE is slower to start.

Not good, I was hoping for a speedup.

We have our own deployment tool, we use the old Wise Installation System to create a single setup.exe file.

Thanks,
Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by David Lowndes

Post by Lynn McGuire
We are thinking about upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to VS 2013.
Is there a list anywhere of gotchas?

What aspects of VS2005 do you use?
As you've posted in a VC++ forum, the C++ compiler and standard
library are more standard conforming, so there may be some parts of
your code that require changes, but they're usually minor and are
generally for the good.
You'll probably find the IDE is slower to start.
If you use the Setup/deployment projects - they're gone, though there
is now a project that's resurrected it, albeit that it doesn't support
XP generation OS's.
Dave

BTW, would you go to VS 2008, 2010, 2012 or 2013?

Thanks,
Lynn McGuire

[David Lowndes]

Post by Lynn McGuire
BTW, would you go to VS 2008, 2010, 2012 or 2013?

That depends on what the project requires particularly with .NET
versions if you do any managed code development.

For most of my native C++ projects I still use VS 2008 despite having
access to all the other versions of VS.

I've usually built my projects with all the later compilers just to
check the sources don't have any lurking problems that the newer
compilers may identify.

Dave

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by David Lowndes

Post by Lynn McGuire
BTW, would you go to VS 2008, 2010, 2012 or 2013?

That depends on what the project requires particularly with .NET
versions if you do any managed code development.
For most of my native C++ projects I still use VS 2008 despite having
access to all the other versions of VS.
I've usually built my projects with all the later compilers just to
check the sources don't have any lurking problems that the newer
compilers may identify.
Dave

We do not have any managed code in our app. All C, C++ and Fortran 77.

Thanks,
Lynn