Coding and Compiling older vc++6 projects and code in VS2005.

I am a returning programmer to VS after having programmed in VC++6 a few
years ago. I got my hands on VS2005 and I was wondering how to compile my
older programs and projects without converting or upgrading them to the
current version or
standard of VS2005.

I acknowledge my post might seem to be naive or might have been addressed
numerous times before but the fact is I havent been able to dig around for a
convincing reply and I would immensely appreciate any help in this regard on
configuring the VS2005 IDE compiler to compile old VC++6 Programs, code and
solutions.

Thanks a lot in advance for sparing your time and answering my post.

David
Sat Jul 22 15:05:11 CDT 2006

k3wm wrote:
> I am a returning programmer to VS after having programmed in VC++6 a few
> years ago. I got my hands on VS2005 and I was wondering how to compile my
> older programs and projects without converting or upgrading them to the
> current version or
> standard of VS2005.
>
> I acknowledge my post might seem to be naive or might have been addressed
> numerous times before but the fact is I havent been able to dig around for a
> convincing reply and I would immensely appreciate any help in this regard on
> configuring the VS2005 IDE compiler to compile old VC++6 Programs, code and
> solutions.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for sparing your time and answering my post.
>

k3wm:

Why do you want to upgrade to VS2005 if you do not want to upgrade your
programs? If you do not want to take advantage of the stricter and
better compiler, then stick to VC6 with its much better IDE (IMO).

OTOH, compiling one's code with a better compiler is really not that
painful, and you may discover mistakes in your code that actually caused
it not to run correctly. What kind of errors are you getting if you just
open your old code in VS2005?

David Wilkinson

Carl
Sat Jul 22 16:27:55 CDT 2006

k3wm wrote:
> I am a returning programmer to VS after having programmed in VC++6 a
> few years ago. I got my hands on VS2005 and I was wondering how to
> compile my older programs and projects without converting or
> upgrading them to the current version or
> standard of VS2005.
>
> I acknowledge my post might seem to be naive or might have been
> addressed numerous times before but the fact is I havent been able to
> dig around for a convincing reply and I would immensely appreciate
> any help in this regard on configuring the VS2005 IDE compiler to
> compile old VC++6 Programs, code and solutions.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for sparing your time and answering my post.

There's no option in VC8 to compile VC6 programs - if you want to use the
newer compiler and libraries then you have to make the necessary changes to
your code - there's just no way around it.

Try it! Many programs will "just work" when compiled with VC8, or will
require only simple changes. Most people find latent bugs in their code
when they build it with the newer compiler and libraries.

-cd