Visual Studio 2010 (beta 2) solution in Visual Studio 2008

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He Nrik picture He Nrik · Jan 31, 2010 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

Is there a way to open a solution-file saved in Visual studio 2010 beta 2 in Visual studio 2008? ... or maybe a way to convert it?

When i tried to open it in VS 2008 i get an error saying "The selected file is a solution file, but was created by a newer version of this application and cannot be opened."

Answer

ChrisF picture ChrisF · Jan 31, 2010

If you open up the .csproj file in a text editor (it's just XML) you'll see a line like:

<ProductVersion>9.0.30729</ProductVersion>

(this is from a VS 2008 project)

The first line of a 2008 .sln file reads as follows:

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00

The 2010 version numbers will be different - just change them to these values (or the ones you get from creating a new 2008 project on your system).

Just take a backup of the files first.

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