Any reason NOT to upgrade to VS2010? (Besides the cash of course!)

Question

For those with experience of VS2008 and VS2010. Are there any areas in which you prefered 2008? Any annoyances with the upgrade?

Any reasons not to upgrade?

I'm coming at this from a Web Dev point of view.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think it depend principally of how you use VS.

If your goal is to continue to use Windows Form without Linq (some people stay with VB6...), VS 2010 don't seems to be a good investment...

But if you use, or plan to use WPF and co., VS 2010 seems to be a good investment for me !

So, i think it's interesting to ask yourself : "Any reason NOT to upgrade to WPF and Linq ?"

About your the fear of change like Office 2003 -> Office 2007

Yes, me too, i feel "dropped to my grandma's level"...

But i feel like that too with the change Windows Form -> WPF.

It's good for me : it's not with the improvement of the candle the the bulb was invented !

Office 2007 is for me a great improvement for the user interface... But it's just my point of vue.

Answer 2

The main reason to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 is the .NET Framework's new version 4.0, and all the accompanying tools you can use.

If you don't need this new version now, you can delay the upgrade: that's a reason.

But sooner or later, because we all know that we can't stay behind, we'll have to step forward... This is why all of us are using Visual Studio 2008 instead of Visual Studio 6.0 and build software for Windows 7 instead of Windows 98...

Answer 3

If you're in a team, one person upgrading forces all of your developers to have to upgrade as the Solution files and Project files will be marked as being 2010 format and VS2008 won't read them. One of our developers checked in a project using a 2010 beta and now we can't work on it as we didn't buy 2010 yet :(