One of our old C++ projects is still with Visual Studio 6. Once a year I try to convert it in to a higher Visual Studio Version but it’s not easy because not all the code is written by us.
Anyway, I finally succeeded in converting the project to VS2005 after fixing a few hundred lines of code. But compiling the projects takes a very long time! Much longer than in VS6.
Some classes have a lot of codelines, a few thousands even. These are just arrays to be filled in the code with a lot of items. I know it’s not the perfect solution but this is how it is at the moment and VS6 never had a problem with that.
Maybe there are just some settings I have to adjust to speed things up but if it stays like it is now I will keep it as an VS6 project since I don’t want to sit at my desk all day doing nothing.
Any ideas?
VS2005 produces more optimized code and thus has to spend extra time figuring out how to make it faster.