Hey everyone,

I have to reformat my computer and was wondering if I should install VS2008 this time, having the choice while our university participating in MSDNAA.
Is Jade 2.0 buildable with VS2008? What about using the Team Explorer as the (codeplex-)solution still being made with VS2005?
Any experiences with this, anyone?

bg,
dani

Hi!

we can use codeplex with VS2008 solutions and I have been able to run Jade 2.0 on VS2008 taking out the flag "Treat Warnings as Errors" (-WX) from the Jade.Rendering.DX9 project (the good way would be to solve those warnings, they seem to be related to Pluto). I think Jade 1.1 had also some minor problems with some unsafe code but we solved them (Steve did it maybe? I don't remember well who did it).

But we can't use the current solutions with VS2008, we would have to migrate them first. So, my question to the community and the other developers is: do we migrate from VS2005 to VS2008? And if we migrate to VS2008: do we target the 3.5 .NET Framework or do we continue with 2.0?

Interesting subject Please post your opinions!

Regards!

Vicente

This post was last modified: 03-08-2008 08:45 PM by Vicente.

I vote for VS2008 and .NET 3.5

I'm personally not for VS2008 because 2008 is really, really slow. Its sometimes a pain to work with it compared to 2005.

I (and I'm sure many other people) still only have 2005, too.

We might want to wait a bit before upgrading to 2008...

Well Dani, I would install VS2005 then. We'll wait a little more till migrating to VS2008 and .NET 3.5 (also Mono will need some time to catch with .NET 3.5 features).

Regards!

Vicente

Thx for discussing.
I already gave up on VS 9 because it didnt like to install without errors, run without errors and propably wrecked my vista registry. at least i couldnt get vs 8 running properly after removing vs 9. reinstalled vista and now using VS 2005 again.

bg,
Dani

Probably VS2008 learned somehow about this problem we where having and decided to crash during the installation to avoid us any further discussion :p

Don't you love intelligent programs?

I am a great fan of SharpDevelop. I would suggest it to everyone who needs a lightweight and resource-friendly environment, so if you are students or hobbyists go for it!!!

The message is that with only about 30 MB of SharpDevelop installation you can make real .NET applications on the fly (you really don't need the .NET SDK) with C# (+ other .NET important languages F#, VB.NET, IronPython, yes in the same IDE).

P.S. Why not use SharpDevelop:
[] You can't use XNA in it (XNA works only in VS Studio)
[] You can't use StarterKits (i.e. CosmosOS StarterKit)
[] Not web-development friendly because lacks intellisense for HTML, JAVASCRIPT.
[] Because you like VS Studio better (it's up to you to decide).