From CodeGear to Visual Studio 2008

Question

I'm inheriting a native C++ application. It was developed with Borland CodeGear.

Right now, I already have a copy of Visual Studio 2008 installed on my system. Is there anything that would prevent me from building the system with Visual Studio, even though it was developed in CodeGear?

I'm already familiar with Visual Studio, so that's one advantage. Additionally, it looks like I'd end up with another license fee, to buy CodeGear (or the latest version of it offered by Embarcadero - C++ Builder I suppose).

I'm a newb developing native C++ apps, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Answer 1

If the application only uses the Win32 API directly, getting it to work with VC++ is probably a reasonable possibility. If, as seems much more likely, it uses VCL (or one of Borland's other class libraries), then building it with VC++ will probably require a substantial (quite possibly bordering on total) rewrite.