Should have Visual C++ 2008 and/or 2010 [Express] solution(s)/project(s)

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It would be a good idea to include solution and project files for Visual C++ 
2008 and/or 2010; 2008 Express's upgrade wizard doesn't support saving the 
converted files under new names, and upgrading in-place seems like it could get 
pretty messy with the version control.

One important advantage over 2005 is that 2005 Express lacks the native 
platform headers normally found in the PlatformSDK subdirectory of a VC 
install, such as windows.h and winsock.h, which introduces the complication of 
having to install the Platform SDK separately *and* ensure that all of the 
necessary directories from the Platform SDK are included in the appropriate 
search paths. Not fun at all.

Of course, this would also allow use of whatever new features were added the in 
2008/2010 [Express], some which I seem to recall actually being/sounding pretty 
handy, though I can't recall what they *are* :-).

I'm unsure whether the project file format has changed enough between 2008 and 
2010 that separate solutions/projects would be required; I hope not expect that 
it probably has :-(.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by naesten on 8 Jun 2010 at 6:18

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Does that mean you could get things working a bit better with 2005? I did have 
some ideas of using gyp ("generate your project"), which uses it's own single 
file format, and then outputs all the native files required for building on all 
sorts of platforms (makefiles, Xcode, MSVC, etc)... It would at least ensure 
that the projects are minimally adequate (maybe they'd miss some Win32 specific 
things, but they would have the right list of source files, say).

Original comment by pphaneuf on 10 Jun 2010 at 4:51