Visual Studio 2005 project in 2003

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Visual Studio 2005 project in 2003

In my class we must use Visual Studio 2003, but I am extremely excited that I have recently got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition (Microsoft presentation in my city).  I have been told that there is a way to save a project from 2005, and then open it in 2003, but I have been unable to find where this feature is hiding.  Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you,
Chris Dwyer
foulplay2@gmail.com



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Visual Studio 2005 project in 2003

  • Joe Kelly

    Congratulations on the new copy of VS2005!!!!!!! I'm really happy for you.

    I believe that what everyone else is saying is roughtly true. I also believe you can roughly accomplish this.

    Write your code in vb2005. Make it really vanilla. Stay away from new features.

    In Vs2003 open up a blank project and just cut and paste the vs2005 code in it.

    This won't be perfect. There will be errors but enjoy...!

  • JeremyKei

    Well, given as I said that you can't make VB2003 compile the VB.NET language that comes with the .NET 2.0 framework, and given that there's no option in the menu to do that, I assume we've both looked, I'd say he's mistaken.  Professors often are, I am afraid.


  • Søren Mondrup

    VS2005 did not exist when VS2003 was written, and therefore it does not know how to open the projects.  Even if it did, the language has changed enough that there is no guarentee that a VS2005 project would compile in VS2003.


  • Zhi-Xin Ye - MSFT

    You're right, as of right now there is no way to open the project, but my professor was told at the event that there was a way to save 2005 projects with 2003 compatibility.  He may have been mistaken though.  Thank you for the quick reply.

    Thanks for the help,
    Chris Dwyer
    foulplay2@gmail.com

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