I have been working on a project in VS2008 Pro and I recently tried to open it up on a computer with VS2008 Express and 4 of the six projects were unavailable as VS puts it. I don't understand why, I am not using openMP or plugins. Just my code, some XNA, and a couple libraries like easyStorage.
Am I stuck? I thought there would be an automatic conversion. I also couldn't ever get others to help me on my projects if it requires them to buy the Pro VS2008 or 10... :(
Where did the missing projects live on your computer? Look in your solution file, and make sure you don't have an odd project reference to a location (directory, mapped share) that doesn't exist or isn't accessible on your target computer. Something like:
Project("{...}") = "Proj1", "..\..\..\temp\proj1.csproj"
The Express editions don't allow multiple Projects in a Solution. Is that what you're seeing?
Edited to add:
The above statement is not correct, because I just opened a two-project VB solution in VB Express, but I know I have many Solutions that won't open in the Express editions. I'll have to look again to see what the problems are.