Visual D 0.52.0 released

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 24/03/2020 12:01, ShadoLight wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 10:55:28 UTC, ShadoLight wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 09:54:46 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> a new version of Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that adds D
>>> language support to VS2008-2019, is available at
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> As always - VisualD is highly appreciated Rainer!
>>
>> A minor issue (typo probably), the installer shows "Install in VS2005"
>> as the 1st option, not "Install in VS2008".
>>
>> In fact, there is no option for installation to target VS2008, so I
>> suspect this is just a typo since, AFAIK, you don't support VS2005
>> anymore.
>>
>> This does not affect me, so no need to fix this on my behalf. Don't
>> know about others, but I suspect VS2008 usage is sufficiently rare
>> that this is not urgent.
> 
> Hmm, I re-checked and it doesn't show VS2010 either... maybe it is
> picking up that I had to install VS2005 recently to repair some old
> project that had to remain in VS2005 project format?
> 
> In my case VisualD installer only shows VS2005, and then all options
> from vS2013 onwards (even if not installed).

Versions before VS2013 are no longer shown, if they are not detected to
be installed (the installer already does this for a couple of releases).
This is to avoid a long list of ancient versions that very few use and
that are only partly supported anyway. The installer even detects VS.NET
2003.