Re: Visual Studio 2008 released

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.21ad3da641dfb1d9616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Willy Denoyette [MVP] <willy.denoyette@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the book, I've got several projects which I'm using between 2005
> and 2008, and it's all working fine.

Hmm..., you don't open a VS2005 solution/project in VS2008 without
conversion, do you?

I open a 2008 solution, and add existing 2005 projects. Seems to work
fine.


When you add a VS2005 project file to a VS2008 Solution, the VS Conversion Wizard comes up, right? (it does for me).
At that moment the project file gets "partly" converted to the VS2008 format, basically the csprj file remains a VS2005 csprj file.. "ToolsVersion="3.5"" is added in the Project Element, however, this doesn't prevent the file to be loaded and run correctly in VS2005.
Changing " ...ToolsVersion="3.5" into ToolsVersion="2.0" causes VS2008 to use C# 2, and VS2005 is also happy with this as he doesn't know about this anyway.


Willy.

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