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yoitsfrancis
yoitsfrancis

Reputation: 4298

Features of Visual Studio 2005 that is not in Visual Studio 2008

Currently I have both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 on my machine. If I uninstall Visual Studio 2005, would I be missing something? If there is, what are they? Let's assume that I did a complete (not default) installation for both releases.

Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 302

Answers (4)

e-holder
e-holder

Reputation: 1564

For me, there is a "Feature" that thankfully went away. For some reason VS 2005 likes to automatically swap two lines of source code for me. This happens more or less randomly while debugging. If I simply click on a red break symbol, sometimes that line of source code will swap with the line below it (editing .cpp files in this case).

Upvotes: 0

Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh

Reputation: 1016

The XML schema editor is missing too in VS2008.

Upvotes: 0

BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft

Reputation: 86146

The big thing that bit me is that Windows Embedded Development Kit doesn't run on VS 2008.

Upvotes: 1

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1503489

I think there are at least some Web Service Extensions which are available for 2005 but not 2008, because I've come across that as an issue before.

However, you can install both side-by-side. Why not install VS2008 alongside VS2005 for the moment, and then uninstall VS2005 in six months if you find it's not missing anything you actually use?

Upvotes: 2

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