Devs - what version of Visual Studio?

[Chazcon]

Can a dev tell us which version of Visual Studio is being used to write Civ 5?

Let's hope it's VS 2010, 2008, or at least 2005...

 

[Dale]

My guess would be VS2008.

 

[Chalks]

Perhaps I'm being stupid here, but from our perspective, why does this matter?

I mean, newer environments will make it slightly nicer for them to code, but I don't see how we will notice.

 

[Dale]

One word: SDK.

 

[Chazcon]

SDK baby

 

[r_rolo1]

My guess would be VS2008.

Given that they said they were working in the game from 2 years ago, that would be my bet as well. Definitely not 2010, and most likely not 2005.

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

I will be 08 if they are using Visual Studio

On a side note, does anyone know a way to get Visual Studio Ex. 05?

 

[mathepic]

If there isn't a compatibility break, it is possible that they could upgrade the code 2008 -> 2010 during the development process.

 

[mjs0]

If there isn't a compatibility break, it is possible that they could upgrade the code 2008 -> 2010 during the development process.

Whilst that is possible I would consider it unlikely In fact because any change of that nature introduces risk at a stage of development when it would be unwise I would be actually be very surprised.

I have VS 2010 Beta and I'm pretty sure most of the improvements in VS now are centered around support for managed code through .NET languages, DB integration, and other Enterprise application features that are of little use with the SDK. The relatively minor incremental improvements in the C++ support are unlikely to outweigh the risk involved or the learning curve for some of the new interface changes in 2010. (2010 does introduce some new C++ features in the area of parallel code support, but switching to use that would be a huge change this late in the dev cycle.)

VS2008 was a solid product and a big improvement over 2003 and if it were me I would have used that and stuck with it.

DISCLAIMER: Of course I may be missing something in, for example, DirectX support for the EXE and in all honesty I haven't looked at the C++ support in 2010 because most of my VS use is in C# (or sometimes VB) and the only reason I go back to C++ now is Civ.