I just downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 trial. It would be nice if I could try it out by doing some real work on some real projects, but I can't convert these projects to 2010 format, because then noone else could open them unless they also install VS2010.
Is there any way around this?
When you convert, it creates a backup. All that's really changed is the .sln file anyway, so if you take a copy of the 2008 .sln file other users can just use that to open it.
This is of course assuming you stick with .net3.5
edit - my bad, this is wrong.
There isn't a great way to do this, unless you make a separate copy of your project a work on that. It modifies a lot of files (solution, project, and depending: possibly your configs), that's just how it is at the moment.
The Visual Studio team is discussing fixing this for the next release, they refer to the concept as "round-tripping", making one set of solution/project files support multiple versions of visual studio. Seeing as they have yet to do this though...that term may change :)
Hi,
It may depends on what type of projects you are creating. I have experienced it working, but then I have only done it with 1 solution which contained a WPF and a Class library.
I wanted to do something similar, see here in my project on codeplex
Like I said not sure if this will work for you, but it did for me.
I was working on this at home and at work (not work related just for fun) I had a copy of 2010 beta at home and 2008 at work.
I initially started at work using vs2008, so when I went to open my project it brought up the upgrade wizard.
When I got to work the next day I chanced my arm and created a blank solution included the existing projects into this and saved the solution out (calling it something slightly different)
So when I was at work I was able to run the vs2008 solution file make some changed update those to codeplex and the when at home I could get the latest changes and open them using the 2010 solution file.