VS 2003 vs VS 2005 - Developers Anonymous
Friday, November 11, 2005 12:54 PM Trivium DawnWalker

VS 2003 vs VS 2005

Someone asked me for my opinion one which I'd use, VS2003 with SQL 2000 or VS2005 with SQL Express. The only thing I could think of in my reply was the time constraint! Everything in me would be leaping toward VS2005 with SQL Express BUT the timeframe could be a problem if he has a timeframe. Not sure if he does. The only thing that would stop me from choosing VS2005 is a time constraint due to the fact that certain small syntax changes might be a pain.

Am I right in this train of thought? How many of you guys are lucky enough to be developing in VS2005 full time already?

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# re: VS 2003 vs VS 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005 4:08 PM by Craig Nicholson

I'm currently using VS2005 for all new projects. Still got some based on SQL2000 but everything new is going SQL2005 now.

# re: VS 2003 vs VS 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005 4:18 PM by Armand du Plessis

"BUT the timeframe could be a problem if he has a timeframe." - Actually it would be exactly the opposite, there is so many productivity enhancements in VS2005 you should get the work done quicker.
If you don't use any of the 2.0 language features there's no syntax changes that will affect you, although I think you'd be making a big mistake by not looking at it.

I'm using the 2005 IDE to write code targeting the 1.1 runtime, simply because there's so many enhancements I can't live without any more. Basic example is the refactoring support and method stubs.

# re: VS 2003 vs VS 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005 4:42 PM by Trivium DawnWalker

Thanks Armand! I never knew that was possible. I've let the guy know! Thats great! Hopefully, armed with this info, my manager will let us move over! Thanks!

# re: VS 2003 vs VS 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005 6:46 PM by Armand du Plessis

It's not default functionality, here's some msbuild targets to get you started [1]. I've added support for class libraries and a console application.

[1] - http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2005/11/01/47857.aspx

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