upgrading to visual studio 2005

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Dennis - 30 Aug 2004 09:39 GMT

When I visit the visual studio or visual basic home pages, most of the talk
is about vs 2005.

I'd like to know whether my vs 2003 projects will open up in vs 2005. Can
they be automatically upgraded to take advantage of the better features? Is
this true for ado.net, asp.net, windows forms, web forms?

In other words, is it worthwhile to continue in vs 2003, or should I start
new work already using the betas of vs 2005?

dennis

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Morten Wennevik - 30 Aug 2004 10:45 GMT

Hi Dennis,

Projects will be upgraded to 2005, much like 2002 projects were upgraded to 2003, so you can continue working on your projects when 2005 arrives.

Don't think it will take any advantage of new features. The only thing happening appears to be in the project/solution definition files, not to any source files.

As with 2002->2003, after the conversion, the project/solution files will not work in the previous version.

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Raghavendra T V - 30 Aug 2004 10:57 GMT

Hi Dennis,

VS 2005 is still in beta so i dont think you should use vs 2005 for
production.
You can use vs 2003 itself.

Thanks
Raghavendra

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Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\) [MVP] - 30 Aug 2004 16:36 GMT

They will open and convert in VS 2005. They will not automagically change to
the new model, as Framework 2.0 is backward compatible. In most instances,
they will compile.

NOTE: VS 2005 is beta right now. It will not be finally released until 2005.

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Nick Malik - 01 Sep 2004 07:39 GMT

just to add to the chorus:

Install VS 2005 on a machine that you will NOT use for production
development tasks.
It is a beta product. It uses a beta version of the framework. It still
has bugs.

Walk carefully.

This is a really good use of Virtual PC and Virtual Server, IMHO.

--- Nick

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