Visual Studio project allow to configure the set of tool you want use to build.
If you setup on the same platform VS'08, 2010 and 2012, you can use all the recent tools and functionality of the VS IDE, but still use the old compiler, and don't have to deal with all the recent change in C++ standard or in the compiler.
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| Property box of a C++ project. |
