How to downgrade a Visual Studio 2013 project to a Visual Studio 2008 project?

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LoolKovsky picture LoolKovsky · Feb 10, 2014 · Viewed 8k times · Source

Is there anyway of downgrading a Visual Studio 2013 project to a Visual Studio 2008 project ? I need to run some C# programs created in VS 2013 with VS 2008.

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Stephen Byrne picture Stephen Byrne · Feb 10, 2014

See this answer. But I really wouldn't recommend this, even if it does work, which to be honest is not guaranteed.

Better to either create a new VS2008 solution and just Add Existing...manually bringing in all the source files, or better yet, just sign up for VS Team Services, grab VSExpress 2013, and you don't have to worry about conversion.

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