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Is there any need to upgrade Visual Studio to 2008?

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FirmamentFX

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Hi guys,

Is VS2005 fine for programming gauges and systems all the way from FS9 to FSX?

Is there any desperate need to upgrade to VS2008? It's an expense I would prefer to do without at the moment... And given that my other programming is unlikely to be using WPF/WCF for a couple of years I don't *need* to upgrade for any other reason.

Thanks,

Martin
 
Download the free 90-day trial and decide for yourself.

It really just all depends on the type of programming you do, and what features you want to use.

Patrick
 
Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I have the trial and have installed it on my development system.

I was mainly asking with regards to FS9/FSX. Are there any features that makes ir beneficial to use VS2008 for compiling FS9 or FSX addons?

More importantly - do the samples and headers in the SDK compile correctly with VS2008?

Cheers,

Martin
 
As Patrick says, it really depends on what you type of program you are creating, and what language you are using. For my applications that are external to FS and Forms based I have moved up to VS2008. At the moment I am still targeting dotNET 2.0 (you can choose in VS2008) but some the new features in dotNET 3.5 would be useful for my type of application so I will eventually start to target that version. However some of the nice things in dotNET3.5 like LINQ can be installed to VS2005 I think. Whether that continues to be the case I don't know. I wouls suggest either doing as Patrick suggests or perhaps get the appropriate Express Edition(s) for your target language(s).
 
Hi Jon,

I am certainly looking at Vista and CLR 3.x because of MMCSS, which will be playing a large part in my addon. That would implicitly mean that it is *ONLY* Vista capable though, which could be a bit of a downer.

I'm going to at least try VS2008 - if it works then great, if not I'll go back to 2005.

M
 
I'm going to at least try VS2008 - if it works then great, if not I'll go back to 2005.
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I am sure that you are aware that solutions in VS2008 won't be backward compatible to VS2005 :)
 
Jon - have you found any speed issues installing VS2008 on the same machine as FSX? I'm sure VS doesn't load any services into memory (as I don't use SQL Server Express), but it's a big install - especially with the MSDN library and then the DirectX and Platform SDKs on top of that... I can imagine it would be a bit of added bloat.

M
 
FirmamentFX said:
Jon - have you found any speed issues installing VS2008 on the same machine as FSX? I'm sure VS doesn't load any services into memory (as I don't use SQL Server Express), but it's a big install - especially with the MSDN library and then the DirectX and Platform SDKs on top of that... I can imagine it would be a bit of added bloat.

M
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Do you mean the development environment or the runtime dotNet Framework?
 
Sorry - I just mean the PC in general... I want an FSX system to be as "clean" as possible (my "idle" commit charge is currently about 231MB).

M
 
Well I am still not sure I understand the question but that is not unusual :)

If VS2008 IDE is running then it is a heavy user of resources so running FSX along side it could cause issues. On the other hand in a production environment I don't see any issues. After all you are loading the NET Framework but on operating systems like Vista is is probably already running and I don't really have a view on the impact of the dotNET 3.5 CLR over the dotNET 2.0 CLR
 
Heh - sorry I think it's my lack of clarity!! :)

What I mean is that the more "stuff" is loaded on a PC, the more chance there is of disk/file errors/overwrites etc etc, and also the more chance there is of having spurious "services" running in the background...

What I guess I am asking is - installing VS2008 on a machine will not inherently slow it down will it?

M
 
FirmamentFX said:
Heh - sorry I think it's my lack of clarity!! :)

What I mean is that the more "stuff" is loaded on a PC, the more chance there is of disk/file errors/overwrites etc etc, and also the more chance there is of having spurious "services" running in the background...

What I guess I am asking is - installing VS2008 on a machine will not inherently slow it down will it?

M
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No not as far as I can tell - at least no more than having VS2005 or VS2003
 
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