Visual Studio 2008 release date confirmed

[Kornman00]

:woop:

Source (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=471573).

Microsoft have announced that the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment, Visual Studio 2008, will be released by the end of November.

According to Somasegar, the development is on track and the product will be delivered on time, while its marketing launch will be held in February.

Somasegar's blog adds: (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/05/teched-developer-in-europe.aspx)
We have a very broad partner ecosystem with Visual Studio. Some of our partners have needs to target multiple platforms. As a response to our partners’ request, we are going to remove license restrictions with Visual Studio and the Visual Studio SDK to enable you to use the Visual Studio IDE and build applications that target the platform of your choice.Almost here :woop:!

[Ki11a_FTW]

Wow i didnt even know this

i WILL be gettting this

[Patrickssj6]

You...didn't? If you look on the start page of VS2005/MSDN you see it everywhere.

Great news. Even though you/me haven't checked out the Betas yet for different reasons though.

[Ki11a_FTW]

Well i dont pay attention to it that much, plus im not that great of programmer, Im still doing the small crap, you know like internet browsers and that shit.

[jahrain]

My main concern is whether or not code will be backwards compatible with 2005. If I can't create a project in 2008, that will be compatible with 2005, I'm not interested. That has always been the problem with visual studio and the reason I stuck with visual studio 6 for so long.

[Kybo_Ren]

Oh good God I hate VS6. Terrible. Just terrible.

[Kornman00]

Why would you want to take a VS08 project and use it in VS05...

I idea is to upgrade. Of course the code will still be compatible, but the project files can potentially contain extra info that 05 can't see or have a changed format. But its really not that hard to change the version a proj\sln is for.

Oh good God I hate VS6. Terrible. Just terrible.
Was neat for its time, but ugh, compared to whats out today its :gonk:.

[jahrain]

Why would you want to take a VS08 project and use it in VS05...

I idea is to upgrade. Of course the code will still be compatible, but the project files can potentially contain extra info that 05 can't see or have a changed format. But its really not that hard to change the version a proj\sln is for.

Was neat for its time, but ugh, compared to whats out today its :gonk:.
Well, at my university, all the computers use 2005. If I was to create a project in 2008, and have no way of exporting the project to a 2005 version, It's useless to me since most visual studio stuff I do is for classes.

Also, I agree on how horrid vs6 was. My highschool only used vs6 for vb, so I was stuck using it for quite some time for highschool stuff, and upgrading projects in vs6 to newer versions of vs resulted in 80% of all my code not working or compiling and having to be mostly re-written. And it was impossible to export back to vs6 projects. It wasn't until I finished highschool that I moved up to visual studio 2005.

[Kornman00]

just tell the bitches at ur college to l2gitwittehprogram and upgrade, geez