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Professional Visual Studio® 2008
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Professional Visual Studio® 2008

by Nick Randolph, David Gardner
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1026 pages
27h 59m
English
Wrox
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Chapter 46. Upgrading with Visual Studio 2008

Each time a new version of Visual Studio is released there is always a delay before developers start to use it. This is primarily due to the need to upgrade existing applications to a new version of the .NET Framework at the same time. For example, the migration from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 required upgrading applications to version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. With the introduction of multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2008, you can now upgrade to the latest IDE independently of moving to the .NET Framework version. This is particularly important if you still need to target older versions of Windows for which there is no support for the newer .NET Framework versions.

In this chapter you see how easy it is to migrate existing .NET applications into Visual Studio 2008. This is done it two parts: upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and then upgrading the .NET Framework version.

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