Alright Visual Studio 2010 has been out for awhile and now theres XNA 4.0 for windows phone and pc. Now my question is if I should upgrade from 2008 and 3.1. I'm curious if I'll still be able to code 3.1 games just for the complete fact that not everybody will have 4.0 framework installed.
Another thing, if I do install VS2010 but not XNA 4.0, will I still be able to code my 3.1 xna games in the new 2010?
3.1 is built on .NET 3 or 3.5, I forget which. 4.0 is built on .NET 4. So no, you have to use the visual studio version corresponding to the .NET version.
I haven't used Visual Studio much, but I'd imagine that there is probably some way to convert older projects to be compatible with newer versions of Visual Studio.
yeah, converting old projects is built in upon load. But that would only be useful for converting a XNA 3.1 project to an XNA 4.0 project. Once it's converted to the newer version of visual studio, you have to use .NET 4.0, which means you can't use XNA 3.1.
thats what I was afraid of, I', gonna stick with 2008 and 3.1 thanks winkio :3