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Breaking changes in VS2010 (Beta)

The (beta9 documentation for VS2010 is online, and therefor also the Breaking changes in VS2010 C/C++:

  • “auto” is now a keyword
  • “static_assert” is now a keyword
  • Lambda support excludes support for unquoted GUID in an IDL (it uses the same […] syntax)
  • Some “.NET-Exceptions” can now only be caught with __try __except
  • /GS checks might decrease performance
  • Project files are automatically converted to the new .vcxproj
  • CRT/MFC/ATL/OpenMP-DLLs no longer use fusion (huray!); it uses plan old dll-hell
  • Support for environmentvariable __MSVCRT_HEAP_SELECT was removed
  • New _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL macro (replaces _SECURE_SCL and _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING)
  • hash_map and hash_set are now in the std namespace (previously in stdext)
  • SafeInt is included

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4 Responses to “Breaking changes in VS2010 (Beta)”

  1. Marc Sherman Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 15:41

    “CRT/MFC/ATL/OpenMP-DLLs no longer use fusion (huray!); it uses plan old dll-hell”

    Wow, did developer community feedback cause this?

  2. jkalmbach Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 16:07

    It seems so! Great news ;)

  3. Koro Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 20:05

    Finally. No more manifests and MSBuild support for vcproj’s.

    That alone is enough to make the switch worth it :)

  4. Mike Gagnon Says:
    December 6th, 2010 at 15:57

    I’m not liking VS2010. I can’t get my 2008 project running in debug mode because of this error:

    Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.DebugCRT,processorArchitecture=”x86″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”9.0.21022.8″ could not be found

    I’ve followed this and I must still be doing something wrong:
    http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2009/05/27/deployment-of-vc2008-apps-without-installing-anything/

    It should really not be this difficult!

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