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Sometimes I do consultancy work for companies that are still using Visual Studio 2008, but I have 2010 installed.
I assumed (yes, assumption is the mother, father brother and sister of all f-ups!) that I would be able to open 2008 projects in 2010 without having to upgrade them. However, it appears that this is not the case?
Unfortunately, choosing to compile for .NET 3.5 wont solve this problem as the original developers will need to continue to develop the same projects in 2008
You can’t leave a project in VS2008 format and there’s no automatic way to downgrade a VS2010 project to a VS2008 project.
There are a number of differences to the files:
becomes:
The
<ProductVersion>changes from 9.0.30729 to 8.0.30703 (though I am only using the 2010 Express editions at the moment so this might be different for the full version).Alternatively you could upgrade the project on your machine and just copy back the source files. However, this would require more work if you added/removed any project files as this would have to be repeated on a machine running VS2008.