Stability of VS2008 Compared to VS2005 SP1

[Aaron Smith]

Is VS2008 more stable than VS2005 SP1 on large VB projects? We get out of
memory exceptions and strange errors throughout the day in 2005 and it's
getting annoying. We are all running Vista x64 with 4 gig of ram (quad core
processors) and it runs fast and smooth, but every once in a while it just
slows down and eventually crashes.

We have SP1 with the Vista Update for VS2005 and also SP1 for Vista
installed.

 

[PvdG42]

Is VS2008 more stable than VS2005 SP1 on large VB projects? We get out of
memory exceptions and strange errors throughout the day in 2005 and it's
getting annoying. We are all running Vista x64 with 4 gig of ram (quad
core
processors) and it runs fast and smooth, but every once in a while it just
slows down and eventually crashes.

We have SP1 with the Vista Update for VS2005 and also SP1 for Vista
installed.

Why not download the *free* trial of Visual Studio 2008 and try it out with
your large solution? Conversion should not be an issue, and you can see for
yourself. That will give you more than all the comments you might see here.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

FWIW, for the various projects I've converted (VB, C++ and C#), I think VS
2008 is more reliable and "quicker". YMMV.

 

[Aaron Smith]

Why not download the *free* trial of Visual Studio 2008 and try it out
with your large solution? Conversion should not be an issue, and you can
see for yourself. That will give you more than all the comments you might
see here.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

FWIW, for the various projects I've converted (VB, C++ and C#), I think VS
2008 is more reliable and "quicker". YMMV.

I never thought of trying that... If you convert a project over to 2008, can
you go back to 2005 later?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I never thought of trying that... If you convert a project over to 2008, can
you go back to 2005 later?

Very easily - it really doesn't do a lot to the files, unlike with
VS2003->2005.

 

[PvdG42]

I never thought of trying that... If you convert a project over to 2008,
can you go back to 2005 later?

Why not just make a copy of the existing project and experiment on the copy?

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Jon,

Very easily - it really doesn't do a lot to the files, unlike with
VS2003->2005.

Are you sure of that, I had the idea that for some ASPNET applications a lot
is changing?

Cor

 

[Aaron Smith]

Why not just make a copy of the existing project and experiment on the
copy?

I made a backup of it and just start using it. It seems the only files that
changed were the proj files, so it's no big deal. We didn't want to have to
make a ton of changes and then revert back if we went back to 2005. I think
we will be fine operating in a "production" environment like this to
evaluate it. We really don't have that much time to just sit down for a day
and test it out, so we need to use it as we get our work done. We have been
using it all day today to get work done and so far, I have had no crashes
today. There are still spots were it seems a little slower than in 2005, but
the majority of places that were really slow in 2005 are now really fast in
2008. Intellisense seems faster and also a little more efficient with it's
filtering instead of just going to a spot in the entire list. So far, it's
looking really good.

 

[RobinS]

I could swear I saw this question in another newsgroup. If you did
multi-post, please don't in the future. If you want to post to multiple
newsgroups, post them all at once, so you can see all of the responses in
all the groups.

That said, now you get to go search for my response in the other group that
tells you about using Edit-and-continue on 64-bit Vista. (You can't).

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.
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