Visual studio 2008/2010 dilemma

Question

We have a project which is being developed by a 3rd party. They are using LINQ and .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008. We are currently at 2005 with .NET 2. Once they have delivered the code to us, we are unsure as to whether we will be able to compile/build their code using our current Visual Studio toolkit. I know we can download .NET 3.5, but unsure as to whether we will have problems with Visual Studio.

So we are considering to upgrade. But since Visual Studio 2010 is soon to be released do we wait for that or upgrade to 2008?

Answer 1

Upgrade to 2010. We talk of a month here until you get your hands off. AND it being in RC status (so you can actually test now that it compiles etc- no major changes coming). note that I don say go .NET 4.0 NOW - just use VS 2010. No sense in moving to 2008 at this point in time at all.

Answer 2

With the release being so close I would wait for the upgrade and use the release candidate until then.

Answer 3

Seems to be a no brainer. Unless you have immediate operational needs, you can wait for VS2010 and/or better yet, install and use the release candidate (in a non-critical workstation / role) and get acquainted with the new stuff.