= !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 ==

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

== 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.

== 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.
However, at this time priority will be given to keeping the Visual Studio 2008 solution files up to date.
 
== Test Plan ==

!Build/Run on Windows.

== !Funding/Resources ==

Supplied by Autodesk.