Visual C++ 8
February 7, 2007
We’re in the process of moving our 600KLOC codebase from VC6 to VC8, so I moved my current development project to VC8. After the usual snafus getting a working build I finally have a binary that I can build, run & debug in the IDE and at the command line. Getting a binary that links is always a struggle in a new environment, especially if the ground is moving under your feet with new versions of STLport, Boost and others. So I was relieved when the link finally came up with zero unresolved externals, and I could start to explore the most important part on an IDE: the debugger. It’s nice. The tabbed debug windows for browsing variables, threads, callstack work nicely. And you can click on a variable and pop up a view – very handy for those long strings that got truncated in the old VC6 debugger window.
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February 7, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Thats a huge leap from VC6 to VC8 but I think you will appreciate it. Did you face a lot of new warnings and did the new compiler detect any “errors” in the code base :).
February 8, 2007 at 9:19 am
Our framework team, who provide the libs we build on, had ported to VC7 earlier. Most of the issues related to tighter adherence to the C++ standard we’re cleared then, thankfully.
February 10, 2007 at 10:07 am
What performance increaees/decreases did you see?