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Bring back support for visual studio 2008

"We have discontinued support of Visual Studio 2008 in Code Compare 3.0" --> Is it so hard to support VS 2008 really? It is by far the most stable VS ever released. No, 2010 and 2012 are bad, even though I am using them on a regular basis. BTW for SQL reporting VS 2008 is your only option today.

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  • Neolisk commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't need more than that. In fact with multi-monitor setup, I find it more convenient to open outside of VS, assuming VS is on one screen, and CodeCompare is on another. To sum up, please don't scare people like that. :)

  • AdminDevart (_, Devart) commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have discontinued support of our extension for Visual Studio 2008. Of course, you can integrate Code Compare to Visual Studio 2008 VCS (TFS, AnkhSvn etc.) and it will open comparison right in standalone, but not inside Visual Studio 2008.

  • AdminDevart (_, Devart) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 have totally rewritten code editor. They retained the old editor API, but it's buggy in the newer versions of VS. So we decided to move to the new API to make integration more stable.

    Moreover, we've changed the package registration and used the newer mechanism. That allowed us to increase VS startup speed after Code Compare installation (that was one of the users' major complaints).

    Giving all of above, dropping VS 2008 support was a necessary step.

    P.S.
    Code Compare should not work under VS 2008. It seems like a dirty uninstall. Drop us an email if it's installation bug.

  • Neolisk commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wait a sec, it seems to be working fine under VS 2008, so why did you mention drop of support?