Upgrade Previous Visual C++ Enterprise Edition Projects

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Feature Only in Enterprise Edition   Projects with data sources are supported only in Visual C++ Enterprise Edition. For more information, see .

Projects built in previous Enterprise Edition versions of Visual C++ are converted automatically to the current version when you open them in Visual C++. Thus, to convert a project, open it, let Visual C++ do the conversion, and save the converted project. Save the converted project under a new name if you want to retain your old project for any reason.

Unlike versions prior to Visual C++ 5.0, data sources are no longer kept in a C++ project. Instead, data sources have their own project in Visual C++. You do not need a C++ project; your project can consist solely of data sources, and you can edit and debug the stored procedures within the data sources.

In Visual C++ Enterprise Edition, the data sources appear as a separate database project in FileView. You can switch to Data View by clicking the database project. When you open a project built in a previous version of Visual C++ Enterprise Edition, a database project is automatically created for the data sources. This project appears in FileView, along with the C++ project that once contained the data sources.