I have a VB.NET 2.0 project developed using VS2005 Free Edition and I am considering to upgrade it to VS2008 FE, mainly because I have problems once per year, whenever my Temporary Certificate expires.
I was wondering if you can point to some resources describing in what parts of the code I should pay attention after the upgrade. My project uses only two external components (zipforge and objectlistview) and I am not using any databases, in case this information is of any use to your answers.
If you want to stick with the .NET 2.0 framework once you upgrade to 2008, click on My Project in the Solution Explorer, select the Compile tab, Advanced Complile Options button, Target Framework drop down box. If you don’t do this, the project defaults to using the latest framework, 3.5, which could cause problems when you deploy upgraded exes if you inadvertantly start using 3.5 only features and your target PCs don’t have 3.5 installed. Changing this option before you start making changes to your source prevents you using 3.5 only features.