Convert 2005 VBPROJ Back to 2003

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Charles Law

Does anyone know how to convert a VB.NET 2005 project file back to 2003? Are
there any other files that need converting?

TIA

Charles
 
Charles said:
Does anyone know how to convert a VB.NET 2005 project file back to 2003? Are
there any other files that need converting?

TIA

Charles
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No automatic way that I know of.... Start a new 2003 project, attach
the code and then correct the errors that it doesn't like.

Of course the easy way would be to restore the backup you made before
converting to 2005.

Chris
 
Hi Chris
Of course the easy way would be to restore the backup you made before
converting to 2005.
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;-)

Ahh. But there's the rub. When it asked me if I wanted to make a backup, I
said No, because I had already made a backup. What I had forgotten was that
there were shared projects, that I did not back up.

The good news is: I use SourceSafe :-) The bad news is, it checked the
projects out before changing them :-(

The good news is, I send copies off-site at regular intervals :-))

But how easy it would have been to include a downgrade utility with VS2005.

Hey ho!

Charles
 
Charles,

Are you not able to create a new project, copy all the used source files,
than include them and set the projectproperties again right.

I thought that this had worked for me forever, (I did not try it again)

Cor
 
Hi Cor

You are probably right. It's just that they are quite large projects, and
several of them in the solution. I was hoping to avoid this route if I could
just reverse the conversion made by VS2005.

Anyway, I managed to retrieve the relevant files from a zip that I sent
off-site recently, and was able to check them against my SourceSafe versions
to confirm the latest. Fortunately, none of them have changed for some
months.

Regards

Charles
 
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