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Chris Offline
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Post: #1
Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
I've seen a couple of times people in this community recommending VS 2010 or sticking to 2008. I'm currently using 2008 but will consider an upgrade..

The only thing I don't like about 2008 is the broken autocomplete, did they fix that?

What are peoples opinions on the upgrade/ reasons why they don't want to upgrade? e.g. fast, slow, buggy, good features
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2010 03:11 PM by Chris.)
09-03-2010 03:08 PM
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llynx Offline
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Post: #2
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Never used 2008, only used 2010. Yes autocomplete works in 2010
09-03-2010 04:18 PM
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Post: #3
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Well i am from the Qbasic age... so i don't really care about the fancy GUI in 2010...

So my vote goes to vs2008 smile

There is always evil somewhere, you just have to look for it properly.
09-03-2010 04:22 PM
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Chris Offline
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Post: #4
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Hmmm. I'll give it a test then; hope its not too bloated.
09-03-2010 05:42 PM
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Harry Offline
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Post: #5
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
I prefer Visual 2008, because i'm used to it and it's reccomended by Esenthel Engine wink I don't need Visual for another things.
09-03-2010 07:52 PM
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Post: #6
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
The intellisense improvements are really great. The GUI is good but the intellisense is my big plus PRO
09-03-2010 07:56 PM
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Esenthel Offline
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Post: #7
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
for me vs2010 runs slower, so I stick to vs2008
09-03-2010 08:25 PM
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Chris Offline
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Post: #8
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
I completely uninstalled 2008 & all components, then installed visual studio 2010 express and have been using it for the past 4 hours or so. First thing I had to deal with were a lot of problems converting the project, and finding where to change project settings etc. Eventually I converted the "Tutorials.vcproj", but only made it survive the XML conversion parse errors by deleting 4 configurations directly from the .vcproj (every configuration with a x64 build in) in notepad++ (luckily their broken parse system tells you which line of the file the error is on). I agree with Esenthel, it's much slower to startup and has quite a lot of background processing which I find very annoying. But yes, the autocomplete seems to be fixed. Not sure whether to convert the other computers now..

EDIT: Also for some reason the "output directory" needs to be shortened "for all configurations" (following conversions) to just "$(SolutionDir)" - example of something which converts is: http://www.cwkx.com/storage/Tutorials.vcproj
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2010 02:05 AM by Chris.)
09-03-2010 11:16 PM
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Post: #9
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
I just have to ask, whats broken with autocomplete in vs2008?
09-04-2010 08:31 AM
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Chris Offline
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Post: #10
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
The intellisense database gets corrupted every now and then; it eventually fixes itself but the only immediate solution is to delete .ncb and restart VS (w/o writing macros). But if there's a fix for this, i'd definitely not consider 2010.
09-04-2010 12:25 PM
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Zervox Offline
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Post: #11
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
c++ macro

Could this help you? 4'th post.
09-04-2010 01:38 PM
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Dynad Offline
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Post: #12
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Well i use VAssistX to fix that intelli problem in vs2008 smile

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09-04-2010 02:23 PM
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Chris Offline
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Post: #13
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Thanks; I saw the macro solution but VC++ 2008 express didn't support them (I didn't wanna install all the other MS stuff either), also VAssistX doesn't support VC++ 2008 (express) -right? I thought it only supported pro. +$99 for a license.. Hmmm stil can't decide which is best, i'm noticing the speed a little less now, maybe i'm getting used to it.
09-04-2010 02:40 PM
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Barthap Offline
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Post: #14
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
2010 + VAssistX smile Esenthel works on 2010 very well. It looks nice, I can't explain why. Probably it's color style and great extension manager.
I use 2008 too, but it's more difficult to use for me (I dont know why). And VAssistX doesn't work on it :( (installer is for all versions but I found only VS2010-Extension file and it works only for 2010).
I use 2*2 (2x2) versions of visual studio. 2x2 = 2(2008+2010)*(express+professional).

Conversion is not a problem for me. I know what to change to project work.
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2010 08:05 PM by Barthap.)
09-04-2010 07:51 PM
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llynx Offline
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Post: #15
RE: Visual Studio 2008 or 2010
Speed was pretty noticable the first few times I used it, but now on a cold start it starts in 1-2 seconds though I'm pretty sure this is because of SuperFetch. Builds take 2-3 seconds, Rebuilds take 10 seconds but this is all dependent on your project size.
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2010 10:48 PM by llynx.)
09-04-2010 10:44 PM
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