http://mises.org/Community/blogs/misestech/archive/tags/development/default.aspxTags: developmentenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/Community/blogs/misestech/archive/2008/02/28/visual-studio-2008-to-2005-downgrade-utility.aspxThu, 28 Feb 2008 21:46:00 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:20335HeroicLife12http://mises.org/Community/blogs/misestech/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=20335http://mises.org/Community/blogs/misestech/commentapi.aspx?PostID=20335http://mises.org/Community/blogs/misestech/archive/2008/02/28/visual-studio-2008-to-2005-downgrade-utility.aspx#commentsVisual Studio 2008 allows you to target .Net Framework 2.0, so you don&#39;t have to migrate the solutions you developed in Visual Studio 2005 to a new framework version.&nbsp; The only problem is that it upgrades the solution and project files, making your solutions incompatible with Visual Studio 2005, which is a problem if you work on a team with Visual Studio 2005 users. <p>This utility allows you to downgrade your 2008 C# solutions and projects to 2005.&nbsp; </p> <ul><li>If you point it to a solution file, it will locate and downgrade the projects in that solution.</li><li>Changing a few lines in the code will switch it to VB.Net projects.&nbsp; </li><li>It only changes version numbers and build targets, so it will keep 2008 metadata, allowing the project to open in both versions.&nbsp; </li><li>I only wrote enough code to allow my solutions to compile in 2005, so no guarantee that it will work in all cases.</li></ul><a href="http://mises.com/blogs/misestech/VisualStudioProjectDowngrade.zip">VisualStudioProjectDowngrade.zip</a><br /> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=20335" width="1" height="1">development