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I use VO 2.8 SP4b

A new count so far, but you can still vote !

[table]
[tr]
[td]Version [/td]
[td] [/td]
[td]# of votes[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2.6[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]1[/td]
[/tr]

[tr]
[td]2.7a[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]1[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2740[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]4[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2773[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]28SP1[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]1[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]28SP2[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]1[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]28SP3[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]8+Robert[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]28SP4[/td]
[td][/td]
[td]13[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

My conclusion at this moment is that we will support 2.8SP4 and will describe the differences with SP3.

Robert

Hi Robert,

summing up the versions gives the following:
2.6 series: 1
2.7 series: 7
2.8 series: 24

So the 2.8 series is three times the rest.

But from what I heard in the NGs there is several people that is on 2.5 and has never upgraded to a never version.

Wolfgang

wriedmann wrote:But from what I heard in the NGs there is several people that is on 2.5 and has never upgraded to a never version.

Well, these are the guys which NEVER invested more than the absolute minimum moneywise in their tool. Why bother to invest life- (and development)-time for them?

Hi Karl,

you are right..... I cannot understand why people never upgraded.... VO 2.7 had a very big enhancement over 2.5/2.6: the possibility to open the IDE multiple times. It was a real timesaver.
And then there were a lot of enhancements and bug fixes in the class libraries.

Wolfgang

I think to answer the question, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I happen to stay on 2.6, why well I used 2.3 then when I had to buy VO again, 2.6 was the newest hence I upgraded.
Not sure why but I seldom experience any issues, think even with Vulcan I only had 1 issue with HashSet. Not sure if it is programming style or whether I am Neanderthal man.
Regards,

Hi Johan,

I can assure you that my productivity with 2.7 has increased a lot because the possibility to open the IDE multiple times on different projects, and to copy between them.
And the applications built with 2.7 were a lot more stable than those built with 2.5 (I have buyed but never used 2.6 because VO itself was exactly the same).
I have to admit that upgrading to newer VO versions normally was a bit of work, and not every update was it worth, but my decision was to use always the newest version available (maybe after a day or two), and I have kept it because it makes sense to me.

Wolfgang

Neanderthal men survived for many 10000 of years under hard conditions, also VO programmers. B)
For us transition from VO 2.5 to newer versions was a hard way. We tried VO 2.6, we tried VO 2.7 and had always Garbage Collector issues that did not happen in VO 2.5. Only with VO 2.8 it was possible to go to newer versions. The reason was that Robert substituted many dangerous string casts by string copy commands in the Runtime and the GUI classes. And then we were glad to have the new versions.
So often it can be a good choice to stay with old versions.
Often it can be the best choice to update as early as possible.

Arne

Hi Arne,

ArneOrtlinghaus wrote:also VO programmers. B)
For us transition from VO 2.5 to newer versions was a hard way. We tried VO 2.6, we tried VO 2.7 and had always Garbage Collector issues that did not happen in VO 2.5. Only with VO 2.8 it was possible to go to newer versions.

I totally agree, but went straight from 2.6 to Vulcan, and obviously X#.
Only recently that I am staying up to date on versions only X# and W10, other software I trial behind...
Regards,

Hi Wolfgang,

wriedmann wrote:because the possibility to open the IDE multiple times on different projects, and to copy between them.

Remember Data-driven.... I only have 1 application No need for any of the above.