Visual Studio 2010 Final Release

[DeanMc]

How to you keep your system clean?

[RobDog888]

How to you keep your system clean?

Soap and water every week.

I just installed on new HD's so its clean. But usually I dont install anything that is not critical.

[gep13]

Cool, as I only have one pc I found it best to develop full time in a VM which is much better than clogging up the one pc.

Can't agree more. Throw in the concepts of snapshots, and you have the ability to easily flatten a VM back to a state before you broke something

[Nightwalker83]

Damn! My Tafe Institute is not listed on the Dream Sparks site.

Edit:

I could download the trial version for now and risk losing it again.

I have noticed that it says:

# Supported Architectures:

* 32-Bit (x86)
* 64-Bit (x64) (WOW)

under the system requirements. Does that mean it can't be installed on Vista? For me it is not showing the architecture type of my pc show if there is more than one architecture each system it won't work. My laptop is 64-Bit (x86) according to what I figured out from the system info and program files.

[gep13]

Hey,

Yes, it will install on Vista. See here:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudi...s/professional

WOW refers to Windows 32 bit On Window, it is an acronym, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOW64

I think you might have got a bit confused there. Your laptop is either 64 bit, or not. I am going to guess that your laptop is 64 bit capable, but you are running a 32 bit OS.

Gary

[Nightwalker83]

I think you might have got a bit confused there. Your laptop is either 64 bit, or not. I am going to guess that your laptop is 64 bit capable, but you are running a 32 bit OS.

Nah, it defiantly said 64bit OS i think someone made a typo when installing programs on the laptop because there is a program files directory (as you would normally find) but also I directory called "Program Files (x86)". I have never used the 32bit version but I reckon that only has the Program Files directory.

[gep13]

Hey,

That is normal. Your 64 bit Program Files is called just "Program Files", however, when you install 32 bit applications onto your 64 bit OS, they are added into a separate Program Files folder called "Program Files (x86).

Gary

[Nightwalker83]

Hey,

That is normal. Your 64 bit Program Files is called just "Program Files", however, when you install 32 bit applications onto your 64 bit OS, they are added into a separate Program Files folder called "Program Files (x86).

Gary

Yeah, I reckon I am getting the folders for the 32 and 64 bit operating systems confused. I usually use a 32bit system as my pc is the 32bit vesion of Vista.
I will take a look at the instructions you linked to for installing the software on Vista and see if it works.

[baja_yu]

How about VB6 to .Net converter. I remember that the Release Candidate of VS2010 couldn't do conversions (like VS2008 can). Is it possible in the final release, or did they remove the feature completely?

[GaryMazzone]

I haven't even look at the converter since 2003... Just took the time and did the re-write.

[JuggaloBrotha]

How about VB6 to .Net converter. I remember that the Release Candidate of VS2010 couldn't do conversions (like VS2008 can). Is it possible in the final release, or did they remove the feature completely?

I'm hoping that it doesn't have that converter, none of the .Net VS IDE's should have had any kind of converter imho. By not having a converter, hopefully it'll help people migrate from vb6 to .Net by writing .Net code instead of converting the vb6 code into really crappy, impossible to understand code.

The converter is extremely sh**ty at best.

[RobDog888]

Havent looked. Its not something that I have ever used.

[Nightwalker83]

Yeah, I haven't bothered looking into the converter either since I was warned away from using it.

Edit:

I have installed the VS 2010 Ultimate trial on my Vista pc and it appears to be working. Before I reinstalled Vista VS wouldn't load for some reason.

[FunkyDexter]

I'm a bit confused by this. We have an MSDN subscription that should entitle us to Ultimate. When I visit the MSDN Library downloads page I can see an option to download the trial version but I don't think that's what I'm after is it? I can also link off to VS2010 in the MSDN subscriptions section I get taken to a page which is telling me that it's unavailable. In fact, all the versions of VS2010 show as unavailable (lots of the various periphery products are available). Am I missing something?

[gep13]

Hey,

Has your MSDN Subscription been individually assigned to you, or is it part of a volume license?

Could be that you don't personally have access to download it, but someone else within your organization does.

Gary

[si_the_geek]

All of the editions are listed for me in the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page (under both "Developer Tools" and "New Downloads")... perhaps there was a temporary fault?

[Nightwalker83]

This maybe a pointless question but how much does an MSDN subscription cost?

Edit:

Never mind! I found the price listing for the subscriptions on the subscriptions page on the site Gary linked to in post #45.

[gep13]

Hey,

They range in cost, depends on which one you go for.

Gary

[Nightwalker83]

Hey,

They range in cost, depends on which one you go for.

Gary

Ah ok! I was thinking that there was only one subscription price and then each VS version had it's own price. Anyway, it looks as if I can afford the Professional version that is if the prices I'm reading are to be believed.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/support

[DeanMc]

The are a good investment.

[FunkyDexter]

Has your MSDN Subscription been individually assigned to you, or is it part of a volume license?

It's part of a volume license but we're signed in as the support guy who's usually able to download any new bits and pieces we need. I'll get them to try it again I think.

[gep13]

It's part of a volume license but we're signed in as the support guy who's usually able to download any new bits and pieces we need. I'll get them to try it again I think.

Intersting...

Yeah, I would try again. From what you have described, I would agree that you should be able to see it. In my case, I can see all the available versions, but the ones that I don't have access to, don't have a download link.

Gary

[FunkyDexter]

We just see 'unavailable' where the link should be. I think support are phoning MS to double check our MSDN subscription so fingers crossed.

[RobDog888]

We just got the approval to install on our work laptops/systems

I have a new modificaiton request of a utility program written in 2003 that Im going to push to 2010. Think Im going to rewrite it as a Silverlight 4.0 app

[gep13]

Good thing that Silverlight 4 got released yesterday then

I was going mental for a while there trying to figure out why the SL4 Tools weren't working, only to release that the Tools were specifically for VS 2010 RC