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The path to becoming a Visual Studios 2010 "Expert"


Chris Vossen

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Much like many jobs, in programming there are tasks that you enjoy working on and then there are the tasks that lack joy and glory but are quite necessary. I recently began moving our project from visual studio 2008 to visual studio 2010 and well I can firmly state that this task fell into the latter category.

 

After receiving this job, my first step was to jump right into it and use the VS 2008 to 2010 converter wizard. Everything seemed to move smoothly but being a programming pessimist, I didn’t hold my breath. When the magical wizard had finished I jumped into Visual studios 2010 and went to do a batch build of the project, the only problem was there wasn’t a “batch build” under the build options. I thought to myself: “hmm that’s weird” but then proceeded to do a single build.

 

I started the build but then realized that I had forgotten something so I went to the build menu again and attempted to stop the build…but that feature was missing as well! At this point I realized something fishy was going on and after a quick google I discovered the problem. When installing Visual Studios 2010 express on your computer, it starts off in some sort of simplified mode called “Basic Settings” in order to reach advanced features such as stopping a build (super advance technique) you must change your settings to “Expert Settings”. So I am proud to announce that I believe I am now an expert because have the need to stop build and perform batch builds…I feel so cool.

 

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To make a long story short, on Friday I succeeded in getting the debug and release dll’s and libraries to build. This means we are a large step closer to supporting visual studios 2010 for all the experts out there.

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I have a fondness for 2010, it's very stable and the first to implement extensions like RockScroll and updated intellisense for other libraries.

 

I've been using Visual Studio for over 6 years, remote debugging and even using ( the now obsolete) setup projects. If you have any questions about the platform feel free to message me.

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