Niranjan Kulkarni wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have VC++ from Visual Studio 6 installed on my machine. > I would like to shift from older version to latest Visual Studio version. > But a lot of my applications are still developed in VC++ 6. > > If I remove VS 6 and install the latest version, will I be able to open VS > 6 > projects in new versions and maintain them as efficiently as I can do today. > > I think MS should have good backward compatibility, but want your opinion > since these are critical applications for my organisation. > > Also if I decide the run VS6 and Latest version of VS run in parallel on my > machine, will it allow me to do so? > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > Niranjan.
Migrating from VC6 can be difficult depending on the application. VS2008 will import VS6 projects but you will definitely want to back up everything prior to each conversion. And once the conversion is done, you will want to look at the converted files and make sure everything builds and runs properly. The development paradigm for the latest VS IDEs is a bit different from what you are used to. For example, you no longer use a member variable wizard to create links between variables and UI elements in MFC. That is probably the biggest drastic change. The next biggest change is probably the way projects and solutions work together. On the plus side, you will notice drastic improvements in both Intellisense and the debugger. Keep in mind though that, with VS2005 and later, older OSes start dropping like flies - especially with builds that link dynamically to the VC++ runtime libraries. Do your homework here if you need to support anything older than Windows 2000. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
