MapGuide RFC 104 - Support Visual Studio 2010

This page contains a change request (RFC) for the MapGuide Open Source project. More MapGuide RFCs can be found on the RFCs page.

Status

RFC Template Version	(1.0)
Submission Date	July 14, 2010
Last Modified	Bruce Dechant July 14, 2010
Author	Bruce Dechant
RFC Status	draft
Implementation Status	incomplete
Proposed Milestone	2.3
Assigned PSC guide(s)	Bruce Dechant
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Overview

This RFC updates MapGuide to support Visual Studio 2010.

Motivation

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010.

Proposed Solution

• In order to support Visual Studio 2010 new solution and project files will need to be added.
• The Visual Studio 2010 solution files use the same extension as those used by Visual Studio 2008 and so new filenames will need to be used.
• The project files used by Visual Studio 2010 have a "vcxproj" extension which is different than Visual Studio 2008 and so the filenames will only differ by the extension.
• The proposed new Visual Studio 2010 solution filenames will add "_vs10" to the already existing solution filenames. Example: server_vs10.sln
• In order to maintain compatibility with 3rd party components the new Visual Studio 2010 project files will be configured to use the Visual Studio 2008 compiler/linker.

This will allow a developer to take advantage of the IDE of Visual Studio 2010 while still using the older Visual Studio 2008 compiler/linker.

Implications

The existing Visual Studio 2008 support will not be changing. Changes to solution files and project files would require that both sets be maintained.

Test Plan

Build/Run on Windows.

Funding/Resources

Supplied by Autodesk.