Will visual studio 2015 projects and solutions be backward compatible with 2013?

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sprocket12 picture sprocket12 · May 7, 2015 · Viewed 27.3k times · Source

Now that Visual Studio 2015 RC is out, has anyone installed it and opened Visual Studio 2013 projects/solutions?

  • Does it ask the files to be changed?
  • If yes, are the changes it makes backward compatible?

Answer

Alex Angas picture Alex Angas · Jul 9, 2015

Take a look at the Porting, Migrating, and Upgrading Visual Studio Projects article for Visual Studio 2015. All of the various caveats are described there.

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