Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4
Over the weekend I installed the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the Silverlight 4 Beta. On my laptop, it installed fine. On an older (spare) development box it caused Windows 7 to “black screen” in the middle of the install process. I admit that this is an older system, and may be a bit unstable, but it shouldn’t crater on install.
My two goals are to:
(1) Try the new features of Silverlight 4; printing and privileged applications. These were the key issues that prevented me from hosting applications in Silverlight.
(2) Begin the process of porting a large project from Visual Studio 2003. VC 2005 and 2008 tried to “fix” the MS runtime libraries via Windows SxS. In my mind, the result was far worse! VC 2010 goes back to the older model, where the application will load the DLL’s in the application directory (no fuss, no muss).
Because I’m in a C++ mood, I’m starting with the port. The first step will be to build Boost – the trunk has support (for 2010), so it’ll just launch bjam and let it churn. Qt doesn’t have a mkspec for 2010 yet, so I’ll just use the 2008 settings.
Assuming nothing goes wrong, I’ll start the basic porting this afternoon.
