Visual Studio 2008 projects from Visual Studio 2010 without conversion

Question

Is there any way? Can I use and create Visual Studio 2008 projects from Visual Studio 2010 without conversion?

I found this explanation:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/15/why-does-visual-studio-2010-convert-my-projects.aspx

Do you have a hack? :)

In my team, we need this in order to work on the same version of the VS project (the source is on svn) and from different IDEs.

Answer 1

I don’t think you can go this way, but you can load VS2010 projects into VS2008. Back up the 2008 solution, let VS2010 perform the conversion, and then download the 2008 solution again. There will be warnings that he is using an unknown version of the tool, but while your projects are "simple" (do not use any things specific to 2010), they should work.

I use this method for Noda Time , with the solutions "Noda Time VS2008.sln" and "Noda Time VS2010.sln". Using the same project files for both solutions is a real boon - this means that you must remember to add the source files to the “other” project when you add them to one.

Answer 2

Pretty sure this is not possible. But maybe you can have two project / solution files linking the same files, one called xxx8.sln and the other xxx10.sln, and then you can use the correct one to suit your needs. If you add just something in 2008, you can just do a new conversion when necessary. Otherwise, perhaps you could write a small tool to copy changes from one to another. I think the decision files have not changed much.