[wix-users] Visual Studio Versions

[Edwin Castro]

We're still using Visual Studio 2012 but we don't use IsWiX. We need to
support older C++ compilers so we don't rev Visual Studio very frequently.
I'm actually hoping we can move on to Visual Studio 2015, at least, but I
don't see that happening soon.

Are you at a point where you can't really add new features to IsWiX for
Visual Studio 2010 and 2012? If so, perhaps you can just select some
version to be the last version supporting those versions of Visual Studio.
If keeping that support in the latest versions of IsWiX doesn't keep you
from implementing new features, then I don't see a problem having some
features that only work on newer versions of Visual Studio. All that said,
I don't use IsWiX so I don't have any vested interest in the outcome.

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Edwin G. Castro

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 19:08 Christopher Painter via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> I'm curious, are there many people still using Visual Studio 2010 and
> 2012?  Has everyone moved on to at least 2013?   Does anyone know any
> published studies on this?
>
> I'm curious because I was recently testing my IsWiX application on VS
> 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and while it still works as designed on
> 2010 and 2012 it doesn't have the new features that were possible starting
> with 2013 and I'm not really happy with the incomplete story on 2010 and
> 2012.
>
> Part of me wants to rip out the 2010 and 2012 support and move forward and
> part of me thinks that I should just leave it be and let people use it on
> those platforms if they still are.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts to share on this?
>
> **The feature gap is multi-project solutions templates that can create
> several projects all at once and wire up all the references automatically.
> Prior to this you had to create  the projects individually and add all the
> references.  Something that would lower adoption rate.
>
>
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