Starting in VS 11, you can now round-trip VS 2010 projects/solutions without modification in most cases.
Can you clarify on the “not safe” part? Is there anything in particular you are worried about? In 2008/2010, in most cases, all that’s really changing underneath is a version number stored in the project/solution. Everything else will build normally. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:50 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts? On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com<mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Thanks for the feedback. On the three different versions things, why are you using three? What you building that still requires 2005/2008? Ok, we do builds for products that were released when 2005 (and 2008) were current, and it's not convenient, or safe, to update them to 2010 (or 2012) - we're only doing maintenance fixes on them. It'd be nice if you could open a 2005 project with 2012, without converting it to 2012 format, and then compile it with the 2005 version of CL. That would give you the 2012 UI, and not alter the project/solution/binary more than necessary. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts? On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com<mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: > We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ > > > > Thoughts? I agree, somewhat, about the colour, but feel you've gone too far towards monochrome. And if you make me learn a new set of damned icons, I won't use the bloody thing. This is one thing I wish Microsoft would stop tinkering with. Icons, menu layouts, dialog layouts. Some of us don't move on completely from one version to another, but use 3 different versions of VS. Do you have any idea how painful this is? [Description: Pictographic icons from VS 2010 on the top row with the equivalent VS 11 glyphs on the bottom row] Take the comment/uncomment icons. WTF are they meant to represent? </rant> -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
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