I work in a large team, and not everybody has upgraded from VS 2008 to VS 2010, though I have. I have a maintenance bug in a VS 2008 project, and have been told that I cannot upgrade the project file. Is there a way for me to make the changes I need to make within VS10 without upgrading the project (including compiling, using the debugger, etc.), or do I need to re-install VS 2008?
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A tool to switch project files between using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010
http://stevedunns.blogspot.com/2010/02/tool-to-switch-project-files-between.html
Raj Kaimal
2010-05-28 21:12:26
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I guess you could go ahead and upgrade the solution, but not check it in. Wouldn't work?
However, being a show-off is definitely a bad practice. I would definitely keep the VS2008 that is standard for the rest of the team.
Fyodor Soikin
2010-05-28 21:13:08
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I've done this before by checking out everything converting to VS2010 and simply not checking back in the sln or project files.
I would usually do the final build / test using VS2008 on a VMware machine.
Richard Harrison
2010-05-28 21:15:17