Re: VS 2010 and VS 2008

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 25 May 2010 16:07:18 -0700

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I've been doing more and more on 2010 and one thing that bugs me is that any
statically linked MFC program gets an extra 1.5MB of stuff in the EXE for
the Feature Pack controls whether or not they are used. At least with 2008
you could not install them if you didn't want to use them. I know this was
also true in the beta, but I thought they were going to make it link
sensitive, but apparently it has something to do with the ribbon editor
being part of the resource editor so the code get sucked in regardless (even
if you do a console app).

I have one program I'll have to leave on 2008 since it needs to be as small
as possible. In VC6 it was around 300K, in 2008 it was around 500K and with
2010 it is 2568K. Same code just compile three ways and nothing but basic
controls used (no feature pack stuff).

I still like VS 2010 and for most of my programs an extra 1.5MB wouldn't
make a difference, but it seems rude to include functions from a library
that aren't actually used.

I really like the new IDE improvements and new "lack of" manifest support
:o)

Tom

"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message
news:u9hT65m#KHA.5464@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Just spent a happy Sunday morning installing VS 2010.

Plus point: it found one syntax error in my several thousand .cpp files
which VS 2008 missed.

Problems: one or two minor ones not yet resolved.

Is there any reason why a resource only DLL compiled with VS2008 should
not work properly with a program compiled with VS2010 ?

What about other non-MFC DLLs with a pure C interface?

Dave
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