Visual Studio 2022

[grfehr]

What is the timeline for compatibility with Visual Studio 2022. I keep getting this error every time I open 'The DevArt Code Compare Package did not load correctly.'

I have tried uninstalling and installing clean and I still receive this errorl

[sbone]

Not sure how you got it to show up in VS2022 as even being enabled without hacking around a bit. VS2022 is 64 bit and some of the techniques used in extensions in prior versions (which used 32-bit COM behind the scenes) are not easily moved to VS2022. There may be more effort required to move it to 2022 than you may think.

That said, recent posts in this forum (and also Review Assistant) have been responded to with:

Development is complex and creative work. In spite of our willingness to continue expanding our product, we must evaluate our efforts, and currently, we do not develop Code Compare actively.

DevArt has not marked the product with this status on their product page, and will continue to gladly take your money for license renewals, however. I also do not know if folks that buy VS2022 can downgrade and also have VS2019 to continue using Review Assistant. Having two versions of VS to move between for your workflow is sub-par anyway.

I'd love to get more than the form letter in response to this request here. We are considering expanding use of this tool to other business units which means we need to buy more seats (the bundle with Review Assistant). If it will not at least receive minimal updates to maintain functionality on newer versions of its dependencies, we will use alternative solutions. And we need to decide very soon if we move off this tool or not as our license renewal is coming up.

[grfehr]

Running the installer will give you the option of integrating with Visual Studio 2022. That was all I did. Thanks for including that snippet about the current development status. At least now I know I won't spend the money on a full license for it.

[Kirsan]

it's very sad that such a good product is abandoned :( It's absolutely clear that with such state of things, you do not need to buy (renew) a license.

[DorieF]

I also had this error recently but now anymore.

[Kirsan]

For me vs2022 is second problem. And the first one is that main feature - Semantic Source Code Comparison is not working any more :( Because the latest supported c# language version is 8 (may be even 7.3) :((( More than 2 years old!

[NickEckel]

64 bit will be the only route forward from now on, so you might as well run with it now. The later 32 bit VS versions will be supported for a few years but then just be left to wither on the vine.