I recently upgraded from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio .NET 2005.
I have several projects that I created in Visual Studio .NET 2003, but when
I try to open them in Visual Studio .NET 2005 it tries to force me to
convert them. for some of these it would be fine, but some of them run on
servers that do not support .NET 2.0 yet, I simply want to edit the code
remotely but not convert anything. How can I prevent Visual Studio .NET 2005
from forcing me to convert the files? Thanks.
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Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

Hi Nathan,

I recommend you upgrade the servers promptly to support 2.0, but I
understand if you don't have the authority. Also, you say you upgraded to
2005 but Visual Studio .NET supports side-by-side installation. If you
still have 2003 just use 2003.

VS.NET 2005 is converting the project files to the new format supported by
VS.NET 2005. I don't think you can stop this process, however I don't
believe that it's changing any of your code.

Try building as you normally would to ensure that you haven't used any
breaking changes from 1.1 to 2.0. If it builds you can use an app.config
file to redirect the framework version that your program uses from the 2.0
assemblies to the 1.1 assemblies. I have not tested this method.

ASP.NET:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bfyb45k1.aspx

WinForms:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconassemblyversionredirection.asp

HTH

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Just open the *file* that you want to edit, rather than the
solution/project.

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