That would likely turn the 18 month upgrade effort into a 36 month upgrade effort that happens 5 years later.
Sometimes long upgrade cycles are great, but I suspect a yearly upgrade to the latest Visual Studio would have been a lot less painful. Fixing a few small issues is much easier than fixing many of them, and having to do it yearly both makes everyone better at doing it and better at avoiding the creation of such issues.
Sometimes long upgrade cycles are great, but I suspect a yearly upgrade to the latest Visual Studio would have been a lot less painful. Fixing a few small issues is much easier than fixing many of them, and having to do it yearly both makes everyone better at doing it and better at avoiding the creation of such issues.