Visual Studio 2010 Saving Projects

Question

To All,

I haven't used a Visual Studio in quite a few years, and don't remember what version I had used. I created 15-20 libraries and 30-40 utilities - all in C.

I recently decided that I wanted to enhance some of the libraries and utilities and acquired Visual Studio 2010. I open an existing project (.dsw) and I get a popup that says "The project ' must be converted to the current ... Convert and open this project?' I click on Yes. I then get a popup that says "A file with the same name ... already exists on disk. Do you want to overwrite the project and its imported sheets?' Again I say Yes.

I go along my way and make a bunch of changes to the project. I click on "Save All." I then close the project and when I reopen, it is like I didn't change anything! I get the same popups again!

I've check the permissions on the directory and files and they should be writable. I have SCOURED the net trying to find out what I am doing wrong to no avail.

Any helpful pointers would be greatly appreciated!

TIA,

je

Answer 1

.dsw extension was used by Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2010 project files have extension .vcxproj . The conversion process mentioned in your question creates those new project files. Open them instead of old .dsw