How to downgrade from Visual Studio 2012 project to Visual Studio 2008

Question

I am working with C# Windows application . I've recently converted a Visual Studio 2008 project to the new Visual Studio 2012 project . Now I have to downgrade this project to Visual Studio 2008 . Is there any way to downgrade this project?

Answer 1

Well 2012 is compatible with 2010, i am not sure this would work but i found this on how to go back from 2010 to 2008, hope it works for you with 2012 ( Original Link ):

1. Make back up of your .sln file

2. Open your VS 2010 .sln in notepad.

   It should look something like this:

    Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00 # Visual Studio 2010 Project("{FAE04EC0-3 ...... 

3. Change the Version 11.0 to Version 10.0 and the Visual Studio 2010 to 2008

   It should look something like this:

    Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00 # Visual Studio 2008 Project("{FAE04EC0-3 ..... 

Answer 2

Visual Studio项目转换器 ？

Answer 3

除了提供的解决方案是正确的之外，我还要补充一点，你需要确保在App.config文件中没有类似于这个的代码，否则无论你做什么，你都无法运行项目：

<startup> <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/> </startup>

Answer 4

In Visual Studio 2012, change all projects to target .NET Framework 3.5.

In Visual Studio 2008, create a blank solution and then add all .csproj/vbproj to it.

There is no way to go back for .cxxproj Visual C++ projects to Visual Studio 2008.

Answer 5

Go to: Project Properties->Configuration Properties->General->Platform Toolset. Change to different Visual Studio version.