pioneerspacesim/pioneer — pull request #1509 by fluffyfreak (2012-09-14 15:04:15+00:00)
Title: New Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition solution and projects.

# New Visual Studio 2012...

The version that allows building desktop (*i.e; the current 100% of windows projects*) was released just the other day. It can be downloaded and installed onto Windows 7 and Vista PCs so I grabbed it to try it out and what better way than bring the Pioneer projects and solutions across?!?

I expect that I will be switching back and forth between this and the #VC2010# so I'm happy to be the maintenance/janitor for this. It's reasonable to assume that we'll be getting an influx of bright new shiny people who will probably have this version installed.

# New VC2012 means new files, new library versions, new labour...

I've downloaded and built the necessary sigc, libogg, libvorbis and thus libvorbisfile libraries static varieties as required and they have been force added to the "win32/Libs" directory.

# New results!

None, it's an IDE and compiler/linker/etc.

Does seem to build and link a bit quicker maybe, might be my perception because it's so shiny.
Except of course it's not shiny, it's grey, the most bland grey thing with other shades of bland grey I have ever seen. It's like programming with John Major staring at you.

I like the new icon though, and when it start up the loading splash is pretty. Then it goes away and everything is ok with subtle blues and grey, then you load a project... and everything is grey.

# It's Really That Grey?

Yup, although I hear in some countries they'd spell it "gray" but I always think that's a unit of absorbed dose commonly associated with ionising radiation.

# Please stop rambling.

Ok