[Cvsnt] Visual Studio .NET for CVS-NT?

[Mark Colburn]

The Project files generated by VS7 are stored in XML format. The format
is different from VS6 but it is not binary. Open one up in your favorite
editor to be sure...

I have worked on several small projects, migrating them from VS6 to VS7
with no problem. Your mileage may vary. I have not tried to compile and
test CVSNT with it yet, though.

-mark

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-admin at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-admin at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Tony Hoyle
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:07 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] Visual Studio .NET for CVS-NT?

Bo Berglund wrote:

> Via my MSDN subscription I have received the release version of VS7
> (aka VS.NET) and now I wonder if I should take a dive and install it.
> I am using VC6 at the moment only for compiling CVSNT and WinCvs.
> Will there be problems if I switch to VC7??
> Anyone who has tested it?


We haven't received the release yet (Still on beta 2) but I assume it's 
due some time as we have MSDN Universal (that said we haven't had an 
official release of XP yet either...  MSDN isn't half as reliable as it 
used to be).

VS.NET uses a binary format for its project files... I assume there's 
some kind of upgrade path but there's little chance of being able to 
manage these in CVS, and there's obviously no downgrade.

This fact alone has actually led to a comapany wide decision not to 
adopt VS.NET where I work... I'm not even allowed to install it in case 
it upgrades something and screws up the development tree (We got burned
with the Access 97/Access 2000 switch which nearly cost us an entire 
release - someone installed Access 2000 and viewed some critical 
databases with it, rendering them unusable).

Tony

-- 
"Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more 
security than wiping with decimal values." -- Norton SystemWorks 2002
Manual

tmh at nothing-on.tv 
http://www.nothing-on.tv

_______________________________________________
Cvsnt mailing list
Cvsnt at cvsnt.org
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt

_______________________________________________
Cvsnt mailing list
Cvsnt at cvsnt.org
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt