Build environments for latest DDK and SDK

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me the differences between the build.exe compiler in
the DDK and the latest Visual Studio 2008 VC++ compiler? It seems that
they are similar / the same but I see warnings not to use Visual
Studio. Is this just because it is a pig to set up the environment
vars and conditional compilation statements?

I'd prefer to use Visual Studio, especially since it installs the
latest SDK alongside. I know the long term plan from MS was to have
the driver development environment available in VS as well.

I have the source for a printer driver compiling under the DDK already
so hopefully it should not be too much hassle. Perhaps I develop under
that and deploy under build.exe.

Any insights would be very helpful, I'm new to the DDK and driver
development in general.

Regards

Ryan
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