Is it time to say goodbye to VC6 compiler?

Question

Of late I\'m facing the issues that points finger to VC6 compiler.

Few of them are:

1. A function-try-block doesn\'t work. Related Q
2. in-class constan

Answer 1

Are you updating the OS any time soon? When I researched moving our apps to Vista, I found that Vista doesn't officially support anything before VS 2005 (except for VB 6), and has a page-long list of possible little problems with VS 2005 that may or may not bite you. I recommended delaying until VS 2008 SP1 was available (i.e., when VS 2008 was really usable), and doing the compiler changeover first.

If the project is a special one for a few customers who run it soley on old NT machines, you may want to keep it at VS 6. If you are selling it for any sort of general consumption, you will need to make it Vista-compatible at some point (or 7-compatible, or whatever), and you will need to upgrade.