Making the switch to Visual Studio 2010 [Video]

As for making the switch to Visual Studio 2010 internally, we’ll branch our source tree for new development as soon as the entire product builds in Visual Studio 2010. Externally, we’ll keep shipping our existing product compiled the same way it has been for the past year, and we’ll only ship our next-generation product with Visual Studio 2010.

“We have a complex product that needs significant testing before we ship,” the developer added. “If we use the Visual Studio 2010 builds internally for the new product version, we’ll have most of the compiler-related bugs flushed out by the time we’re ready to go into beta testing. But shipping a stable product with a new compiler would just be asking for trouble.”

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