Issues Upgraging to Visual Studio 2010

I've moved the whole development group for our project to VS2010 3 days after it came out. Before this I've been trying out the beta versions on my machine with some side projects.

From the experience I got I can say:

VS 2010 can easily run alongside VS 2008 on the same machine without any issues whatsoever.
The projects created in VS 2008 can be opened in VS 2010. But when they are opened - they will be updated to the new format, and cannot be reopened in VS 2008. The changes aren't critical, so if it's necessary it is possible to revert these changes. Possible, bt not straightforward :)

This means that if you're working on a collaborative project, either the whole team moves to 2010, or you all stay with VS 2008. That doesn't mean you can't write your own projects in VS 2010 in parallel ^_^

UPD: I haven't met any projects that I wasn't able to convert using the conversion wizard. but just in case you can install VS 2010, convert your project, and see if it's all fine. If it is - work on it for a couple of days.. If you're completely satisfied - uninstall VS 2008 and feel good about it :D

Thanks for the feedback. How's it running performance wise compared to 2008?

ringerce 2010-04-21 12:15:46

Performance wise I feel it's considerably faster. The memory footprint is lower, and moving to a WPF interface made it a lot more pleasant to work with, imo

Artiom Chilaru 2010-04-21 12:19:24

Great feedback. I have a small team so migrating everyone over wouldn't be a huge disaster. Thanks again.

ringerce 2010-04-21 12:23:26

Any new features stand out on the team foundation side ...?

ringerce 2010-04-21 12:24:23

We don't use Team Foundation in our team. Instead use the regular VS versions, and use SVN for the code repository.. Don't know the reasons - this was set up before I joined the team :)One VERY GOOD feature of Team System (that was also present in 2008) is Database Comparison.. Can compare the schema and data between two sql databases, and give you the upgrade scripts.. Don't know any other )

Artiom Chilaru 2010-04-21 12:27:14

Right. We've been using VisualSVN and we're happy but based on what I've seen online with regards to Team Foundation is definately the way we want to go for future projects.

ringerce 2010-04-21 12:31:24

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