And I always feared that moving to Visual Studio would prove degrading. Not so! To be capable of degrading, a product must obviously support downgrading, i.e. the ability to "Save As..." a file into an older file format.
You know, like how Word 2010 can "Save As..." to Word 97 ".doc", or RTF if you must, or even (heavens) ASCII? And how Excel 2010 can still "Save As..." to Excel 5.0, CSV or even tab-delimited? And obviously, the way Visual Studio 2010 can "Save As..." a new .vcxproj solution to an older Visual Studio 2005 .vcproj?
Well, no. I turns out I made that last one up, because there's no bloody thing. Fooled you, ha-ha! Now you can just expect all your customers to upgrade their compiler, too!
(Granted, okay, at least they're free, but still. It's the principle of the thing. In principle...)
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