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Working with Visual Studio 2005 projects in Visual Studio 2008

Hi everybody,

I've received a new computer from my employer. This time I don't want to maintain several versions of Visual Studio (although I know they work great side-by-side). Can I work with an ongoing VS2005 project in VS2008? By 'working' I mean the ability to open, modify, and save back to the original format.

Any ideas?

+2  A: 

You can't do this without editing the .csproj files. You'll need to change the "ToolsVersion" attribute in the project header.

John Saunders  2010-03-09 18:58:02
Maybe there's some kind of an add-on to export to a previous version?
Kerido  2010-03-09 18:59:01
Not that I've ever heard of. Why do you need both versions? VS2008 can target .NET 2.0.
John Saunders  2010-03-09 19:12:37
Because I cannot convince my foreign colleagues to switch to VS2008. Stupid, I know
Kerido  2010-03-10 08:29:44
@Kerido: maybe they'll switch to 2008 in a month when 2010 comes out. They'd do better to take the chance to try VS2010 for free, right now.
John Saunders  2010-03-10 15:50:50
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You can maintain to csproj files, when opening in VS2008 it will convert it. Make sure you have a backup.

Dustin Laine  2010-03-09 19:00:06
This is not an option, because whenever I modify the converted VS2008 version, the two project files are no more in sync.
Kerido  2010-03-09 19:01:40
Then @John Saunders is your only option.
Dustin Laine  2010-03-09 19:10:13

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