Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Easy VS2005 to VS2008 Solution Upgrading

John Robbins' Blog - Easily Converting to Visual Studio 2008

"...  at least we can use VS 2008 to target .NET 2.0 only projects. Faced with converting about 100 different project files and solutions, the thought of manually opening each one and going through the upgrade wizard didn't sound that appealing. Fortunately, there's an easier way to automatically upgrade a solution or project: the /upgrade switch on DEVENV.EXE (the Visual Studio IDE itself).

...Navigate to your project tree and execute "devenv /upgrade MySoln.sln" (without the quotes). Visual Studio will automatically upgrade the solution and all projects as well as create backups. Using the /upgrade switch is about a million times faster than the wizard!

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This is a cool tip to speed up moving to VS2008 if you have a large number of VS2005 projects...

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