Migrating from Visual Studio 2010 to 2015

Visual 2015 has many good features and is one good choice to move our development platform from VS2010 to 2015.

Before doing that we need to make sure some of the items below.

• Target OS on which our application will be deployed
• Supported Architecture. x86/x64/both. 
• Supported .NET Framework versions
• ThirdParty controls used in the project
• Using remote tools for Remote Debugging (VS2015 doesn't support xp and 2003)
• Platform toolsets and runtime libraries

Feature rich 2015 has option to support XP as well by keeping the desired XP toolset in Platform Toolset property.

More information:

Visual Studio 2015 Platform Targeting and Compatibility:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2015-compatibility-vs

Configuring Programs for Windows XP

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj851139.aspx