Precautions for upgrading Visual Studio development tools

Due to the inconsistent development tool versions used by the system developed by the company in the past few years, several different development tools must be installed on the developer's computer for later maintenance and upgrade,

For example, programs such as VS2008, VS2010, VS2012, and even interfaces developed with VS2003 cannot be installed on the current Windows 7 system, so they have to be installed on virtual machines.

. As a result, the software installed on the developer's computer is too large, and the C disk has GB of space in real time, and there will be little space left. The speed of computer operation is also greatly reduced,

It seriously affects work efficiency, and sometimes it is difficult to switch between several versions, which is also inefficient.

We thought it would be best to unify the development environment as much as possible to upgrade it into an environment and minimize waste of resources. Finally, we held a meeting,

The unified decision to upgrade the development environment to VS2012, while upgrading the development environment, do not upgrade the version of the class library, such as the previous class library was developed on. net 3.5, after the upgrade is still

To avoid affecting system running and release stability due to upgrade and development.

Of course, after the upgrade, you still have to release a version for a full test, just in case, after all, these systems have been running in the production environment for many years. Stability

The upgrade was successful after tests. When upgrading an MVC2.0 framework system, you must first upgrade mvc2.0

MVC3.0, because vs2012 does not support mvc2.0 programs. Fortunately, Microsoft provides a tool to upgrade asp.net mvc2.0 to mvc3.0, as follows:

Http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/59008. After the download is complete, select the system you want to upgrade. Very smooth. After the upgrade is completed, the system may prompt that the versions of several dll files are incorrect or that several dll files need to be added to the server. This depends on the specific situation. After one and a half days of busy work, I finally upgraded all the commonly used system versions to vs2012. Now I can reduce the burden on my computer. In the future, I don't need to open several development tools at the same time, suddenly I felt that the computer pressure and my own mental pressure were reduced a lot ,...