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Is it worth to upgrade from VS2008 to 2010 for C/C++ programming? I’m interested in IDE, compiler speed and code generation (I don’t care about new C++0x features for now). I tested early beta releases and the WPF interface worked sluggish in comparison to the 2008 IDE.
Thank you.
VS2010 RTM run much faster than beta. With the new WPF UI, if the development machine has RAM and a pretty good graphic card, it should run faster. It runs faster than VS2008 on my four years old laptop with 2GB ram and Radeon X1300 graphic card (I haven’t experience any slow down others are mentioning yet). Anything to do with graphic in general run faster. The text editor also let you zoom in, good for presentation / code review and you don’t need to mess with your font setting. Some other improvement on the text editor includes box selection where you can perform the same change on multiple lines at the same time, save a bit of copy and paste time. There is also improvement on code snippets management and you can also make your own start page to make it more useful.