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Visual Studio .NET debugging for
older INtime projects
This appendix describes how existing INtime projects may be upgraded to use the
Visual Studio .NET product and its debugger. INtime software continues to support the
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 product, but the use of Visual Studio .NET allows you to
take advantage of the new advanced debugging features of the product.
Upgrading to Visual Studio .NET 2003 or later
The Visual Studio .NET product is also known as Visual Studio 2003 (there is a 2002
version, but that is not supported by INtime software). We will refer to this version as
VS2003 from here on. These instructions will also apply to upgrading to later versions
of Visual Studio.
When you open an existing project (.dsp or .dsw file) in VS2003, you are asked
whether you want to upgrade; if you refuse, the workspace is not opened. If you agree,
VS2003 modifies your file set and you now have these files:
Filename
proj.c
proj.sln
proj.suo
proj.vcproj
Contents
Main source files
Solution properties
User options file
Project properties
The solution file, proj.sln, is the modern version of the workspace: it contains solution
properties (a solution is the new word, but it means the same: a solution or workspace
is a container for one or more projects). There can be different types of projects, but for
INtime we are interested only in the C/C++ project type, which is referred to as a VC
project and identified by the file extension .vcproj; a VC project file contains compiler
and linker settings.
After upgrading, you now have access to all VS2003 features, but you cannot use the
integrated INtime debugger yet.
Converting to a .intp project
To get access to the integrated INtime debugger, we need to tell VS2003 that we have an
INtime project. This is accomplished by converting the VC project into an INtime
project (represented by a file with an .intp extension) which encapsulates the VC
project. When VS2003 reads an INtime project, it provides access to features specific to
INtime projects, which includes the integrated INtime debugger. Before leading you
there, let us see how you convert a project.
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