One of my customers is still on Visual Studio 2003 and they are wondering whether to upgrade to VS 2005 or to VS 2008.
Visual Studio 2005 or 2008? What's more risk? -
In response to one of his customer's needs, my friend Christoph over at Microsoft posted a decent decision framework for VS 2005 vs VS 2008. We have three customers where we are using/have used VS 2008, and it has been very stable if you exclude the WPF designer. Most of the instability risk is mitigated assuming you build often, since by default, VS saves everything before build, so we have rarely found the glitch to be problem. Visual Studio starts right back up, and then we're off and going again. That's not to say, of course, that we don't want it fixed. We do. We really, really do. ;) It is to say that I think VS 2008 is largely stable, and because it makes it trivial to target down-level .NET versions like 2.0 and 3.0, that it is worth either a) just using the beta for free, or b) buying Software Assurance for the current version that you likely have. If you happen to be in the south central region, I know several people that would be happy to help you with the latter :)
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