Working with VS 2008 in a team environment...

Scott Guthrie has a great post about Multi-Targeting in VS 2008. It's a great feature of this new IDE, however it falls short of what I'd like. Rick Strahl has a good post explaining the differences in solution / project files here, which I build this post on.

One thing I really wanted to try was to open up our new project into the new dev. environment and see how it works in a real world application. Our main solution involves 30+ code projects, and 8 web application projects, and that would be a very good test case for VS 2008.

However, I wanted to do this while the rest of my team works in VS 2005. Unfortunately, I cannot do this because of the changes this does to the Solution file.  The only "solution" to this would be for me to disconnect my Solution file from Team Foundaion Server, and add new projects manually... one thing I might consider to test this.

Most companies would never let any beta software be used on their major applications, however I know and my bosses know that if no one used beta software for real world applications, they might not be fully ready upon release.

Hopefully some new tidbits of information come up soon so I can try this out.



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