将项目从紧凑框架.NET转换为完整框架.Net

Question

So I have a big c# solution containing 120 projects. The solution doesn't contain a user interface and is compiled to support both compact framework and the full framework. The solution is in Visual Studio 2005 format.

I would like to remove the support for Windows CE and convert it all to target the full framework and open it in Visual Studio 2010.

What I want to do is remove the support for compact framework from the whole solution.

How should I proceed? Is it possible to just convert the projects to the full framework?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I created a dummy solution containing a WinForms project and a Device WinForms project. Then I compared to two. Useful for me as I'm hoping to port to Windows 10 at some point now they've got it running on ARM devices :D

1) Remove the "ProjectTypeGuids", "PlatformFamilyName", "PlatformID", "OSVersion", "DeployDirSuffix", "NativePlatformName", "NoStdLib", "NoConfig" elements.

2) Remove references to "$(PlatformFamilyName)".

3) Remove any "RequiredTargetFramework" elements.

4) If it exists, the line containing:-

..Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\\Microsoft.CompactFramework.CSharp.targets"..

needs to become...

..Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\\Microsoft.CSharp.targets"..

If it doesn't exist, you need to add it in.

5) Remove the entire "ProjectExtensions" element.

et viola.. it converts... Now if only it would build :/

Edit:

A little bit of tweaking and it built and ran OK. After a little over an hours work my CF WinForms warehousing app is running on Windows 10.

Answer 2

Open the solution with WS2010, click on each project file -> Properties -> Application tab, then you can select the target framework. Should work.

Answer 3

So in the end I had to edit manually every csproj file in the solution. I removed the information's related to targeting the compact framework et replaced it with the needed info to target the full framework.

It wasn't very fun but now it works.

Thanks