[OpenSPIM] All C++ developers: Transition to Visual Studio 2010

[Mark Tsuchida]

Hi Neil,

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Neil Anthony <nantho2 at emory.edu> wrote:
> Can you please tell me if I need Professional, Premium, etc. and/or if the
> MSDN is needed?

For the Core and the vast majority of device adapters, Express (with
SDK 7.1 and VS2010 SP1) should be sufficient.

> Also, would be worth going straight for 2012 if it's backward compatible?

I'm hoping upgrading to VS2012 will be much easier, and it will be
nice to do it before we get 3 years behind.

It looks like VS2010 SP1 project files will work in VS2012 without
conversion if VS2010 SP1 is installed on the same computer (presumably
using the VS2010 libraries and compilers)
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh690665.aspx).
However, normal Visual C++ 2012 project files will probably not work
with VS2010.

Most of the work in upgrading to 2010 was in getting our ~140 device
adapters to build correctly. I don't (yet) know what to expect for the
various third-party libraries when building with 2012 (just haven't
tried yet).

Best,
Mark