{"id":263,"date":"2014-10-08T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2014\/10\/08\/visual-studio-2010-for-c-development-survey-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:05:13","slug":"visual-studio-2010-for-c-development-survey-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-studio-2010-for-c-development-survey-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2010 for C++ Development Survey Follow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the over hundreds of developers who completed our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/vcblog\/archive\/2014\/08\/28\/using-visual-studio-2010-for-c-development-we-want-to-talk.aspx\">upgrade survey<\/a> and the select group that agreed to be contacted and spoke to us 1:1. As always, we appreciate the breadth of participants and helpfulness of responses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three of the top upgrade blockers are cost, breaking changes and third-party library compatibility. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One thing we learned when speaking with individual developers is that these categories were too broad. &#8220;Breaking changes&#8221; could encompass a number of things beyond &#8220;compiler breaking changes&#8221; up to and including project system differences and third-party library compatibility. We also found out that there are dozens of potential third-party components that are depended upon by developers; we need to know which ones are the most commonly used.<\/p>\n<p>What do we do when we need more information? Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instant.ly\/s\/4rztD\">survey<\/a> of course! This one is short and is again focused on developers who have not upgraded to Visual Studio 2013. It won&#8217;t take too long.<\/p>\n<p>Look for a summary in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instant.ly\/s\/4rztD\">survey<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the over hundreds of developers who completed our upgrade survey and the select group that agreed to be contacted and spoke to us 1:1. As always, we appreciate the breadth of participants and helpfulness of responses. Three of the top upgrade blockers are cost, breaking changes and third-party library compatibility. One thing we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus","tag-survey"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Thanks to the over hundreds of developers who completed our upgrade survey and the select group that agreed to be contacted and spoke to us 1:1. As always, we appreciate the breadth of participants and helpfulness of responses. Three of the top upgrade blockers are cost, breaking changes and third-party library compatibility. One thing we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}