Open a project created in 2003 w/ 2002?

[Jag]

My Visual Studio .NET is the 2002 enviroment. And I want
to open a project created in 2003. when i attempt to
open the project, it gives an error and says i need a
newer version. Is there anyway i can open the project,
edit code, and compile without having to go out and buy
2003? thanks.

[Vijaye Raji]

Open the csproj file in notepad. It's a simple XML file and you can figure
out all the project properties pretty easily.

Now, create a new empty project in Visual Studio 2002 and add all the files
that were in 2003 to the new project and modify the settings accordingly.
You'll now have a 2002 project that's a clone of the 2003 project.

HTH

-vJ

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My Visual Studio .NET is the 2002 enviroment. And I want
to open a project created in 2003. when i attempt to
open the project, it gives an error and says i need a
newer version. Is there anyway i can open the project,
edit code, and compile without having to go out and buy
2003? thanks.

[morgal]

-----Original Message-----
My Visual Studio .NET is the 2002 enviroment. And I wantto open a project created in 2003. when i attempt to
open the project, it gives an error and says i need a
newer version. Is there anyway i can open the project,
edit code, and compile without having to go out and buy
2003? thanks.

Well, I can tell you how I used to cluge around it in VB,
I've not looked at C# files closely enough yet to tell
you if it will work of not. In VB, I would just go in
and to the BAS files with my text editor and copy what I
needed and past into my VB project.

[Jag]

I got it working. Thank you.