Visual Studio 2010 Professional edition to 2010 express edition

Question

I have developed a windows application in VS 2010 Professional Edition. When I tried open that project and build in expression edition, It is showing error. I could not open the project. Is there any compatible issue? If there means, what I have to do?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Visual Studio Profession the edition for professional or I say full usage potential that includes many other stuff that are not a part of Express edition (eg Express edition does not allow third-party add-ins), that's why VS Professional is around 3~4GB while Express comes around ~600Mb of setup.

Point is by migrating from Professional -> Express you are going backwards and usually project transfers are supported fro up gradation not degradation, there might my different functions/libraries your project is using from Professional that are not a part of Express edition hence you are receiving this error.

Check for a complete functionality difference chart in between two editions, and from there you than easily find out that if there is any functional that is a part of project in Pro edition but is not supported by Express edition.