"anthonymelillo" <nospam-tonyvr4@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I am taking a class for Visual Basic .Net and the college uses version
2002
> of .Net, but when I bought .Net, I didn't realize that I got the 2003
> version. At times I may be taking projects back and forth and doing extra
> classwork at home.
>
> But, today when I tried to open a project from class in VB.Net 2003, I got
a
> message stating that it must be converted to this new version.
>
> Is there any way that I can take the projects back and forth ?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
> --
> Tony
>
>

"Peter van der Goes" <p_vandergoes@mars.cox.net> wrote in message
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>
> "anthonymelillo" <nospam-tonyvr4@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:efDKCjtfDHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I am taking a class for Visual Basic .Net and the college uses version
> 2002
> > of .Net, but when I bought .Net, I didn't realize that I got the 2003
> > version. At times I may be taking projects back and forth and doing
extra
> > classwork at home.
> >
> > But, today when I tried to open a project from class in VB.Net 2003, I
got
> a
> > message stating that it must be converted to this new version.
> >
> > Is there any way that I can take the projects back and forth ?
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
> > --
> > Tony
> >
> >
> Conversion from 2002 to 2003 is semi-automatic. When you load a 2002
project
> in 2003, you'll be asked if you wish to convert in a dialog box. One click
> does the job.
> Conversion the other way (2003 to 2002) is possible, but takes a bit more
> work:
> There is a utility at Code Project that will convert a VS.NET 2003
solution
> back to VS.NET 2002.
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/macro/vsconvert.asp
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Peter - [MVP - Academic]
>
>