Hello1
I am still using VS6. Actually, I don't use the VS; I use Nmake.
I'm buying a new machine. If I buy VS .Net, will I get all the VS6 stuff
that I'm using?
Yes and No ;-)
You will get a totally new compiler that is much better at following
standard. This will mean that on all those occasions you have NOT followed
standard C++ it will complain!
You will get a IDE that's worse than VC6. But you didn't use the IDE so...
The command tools like nmake are there, but there could be changes
(improvements they call it)
If you have any 3:rd party libraries then you will need to upgrade them to
a new version.
The good thing about the new C++ compiler is that it follows the standard
pretty good. This means that there are a lot of code that VC6 couldn't use,
e.g. STL, that can be used today, e.g. Boost.
Then you also have the whole .NET thing. But that is another kettle of
fish...
// Anders
