= !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 [wiki:MapGuideRfcs 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.