Visual Basic.net v.s. Visual Studio.net

[Ian Smith]

I have VB.net 2002 and am trying to open the samples from
101 Visual Basic.Net Applications.

They won't load, saying they were created by a more
recent version of Visual Studio.

Should these examples open in VB2002? Do I need the full
Visual Studio rather than just VB (despite the title of
the book)?

[Peter van der Goes]

"Ian Smith" <Ia*************@thesmithhoise.net> wrote in message
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I have VB.net 2002 and am trying to open the samples from
101 Visual Basic.Net Applications.

They won't load, saying they were created by a more
recent version of Visual Studio.

Should these examples open in VB2002? Do I need the full
Visual Studio rather than just VB (despite the title of
the book)?

That message usually appears when the solution was developed in Visual
Studio .NET 2003 and you are running 2002. You should need only Visual
Basic, not all of Visual Studio.
What does the author have to say about software version used to produce the
examples?
If they were produced in 2003, there are ways to modify them to load in
2002:

http://www.codeproject.com/macro/vsconvert.asp

Hope this helps.

--
Peter - [MVP - .NET Academic]

[Nasser]

The following hack may work (I said MAY... right?):

1) create a working project in your version of VB and
make sure that it works...

2) open up the project files of the non-loading project
in a text editor and compare the versions with those of
the new project you created in step one.

3) the lines needed to be changed are towards the
beginning of the file...

4) change the versions in the non-loading project to read
the same as those of the new project.

5) save the new file and close the editor

6) try to load the project again.... it should load and
complile..

Let me know if it didn't work.

Thanks
Nasser

-----Original Message-----
I have VB.net 2002 and am trying to open the samples from101 Visual Basic.Net Applications.

They won't load, saying they were created by a more
recent version of Visual Studio.

Should these examples open in VB2002? Do I need the full
Visual Studio rather than just VB (despite the title of
the book)?
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