I am trying to upgrade my project to Visual Studio 2013. For upgrading I simply opened the project with Visual Studio 2013. But no conversion dialog was shown and when the project is opened it has Visual Studio 2012 written in brackets (See snapshot):
What is the meaning of Visual Studio 2012 written in brackets. And is there anyway to convert this project to Visual Studio 2013 manually ?
I've found the solution to this issue. The parenthesis means that VS 2013 will use toolset of VS 2012 because the project hasn't been upgraded to VS 2013.
And to convert c++ project there is a 'Update C++ Project' in the Project menu.
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I'm migrating a Visual Studio 2015 solution to Visual Studio 2022. The solution includes a "Setup and Deployment" vdproj project and Studio 2022 says it is incompatible. Is there an Add-in that I need? How can I bring in the existing (2015) installation project?
You can download an official Microsoft extension that provides support for Visual Studio Installer Projects in Visual Studio 2022.
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022
I am trying to build a VS 2017 solution which includes a Visual Studio Installer Project with the just released Visual Studio Pro 2019. Of course, when I tried to open the solution I got an error because there was not Visual Studio Installer project type in VS 2019. And, I cant find a place to load it from.
How do I add a Visual Studio Installer Project type in the released version of VS 2019?
Install the addin in Visual Studio 2019:
This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists
in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. To use
this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog,
select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer
Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page.
This extension is designed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and
Visual Studio 2019.
We have a buildmachine that currently has installed Visual Studio 2010 to compile our application.
Now we have moved to Visual Studio 2015 and developers have installed it on their machines and modified the solution so it works with 2015 but the previous versions will continue to build with 2010.
I was going to install Visual Studio 2015 on the build machine but I don't know how the build machine will know that the previous branches must be built with 2010 and the new ones with 2015. With some Msbuild settings? Just looking at the sln? By other means?
With some Msbuild settings? Just looking at the sln? By other means?
Open your .sln file with Notepad. Look for Format Version on the first line which correlates with a Visual Studio version.
•Format Version 11.00 is Visual Studio 2010
•Format Version 12.00 is Visual Studio 2013 && Visual Studio 2013
For visual studio 2013 and visual studio 2015, we could find the visual studio version on the third line. like this:
visual studio 2013: VisualStudioVersion = 12.0.30501.0
visual studio 2015: VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25420.1
As far as I know it does it looking at the ToolsVersion on every .csproj. VisualStudio is not required as MsBuild and the compiler come with the .Net Framework.
I created a project and solution in Visual Studio 2010 for a VC++ MFC application, and added quite a bit of code there. Then, today, I opened the same project in Visual Studio 2013. I set the following property
Platform Toolset : Visual Studio 2013 (v120)
Strangely, the project's name got changed from MyProject to MyProject (Visual Studio 2010)
Between, the v120 in project properties and the Visual Studio 2010 in the name, I am a little confused. Does it mean I have all the capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 or 2013?
I want to migrate a Visual Studio 2010 Solution so that I can work with Visual Studio 2013.
If I understand it right, due to the round-tripping feature of Visual Studio 2013,
there is no reason to convert the solution!? I can just open my old solution with
Visual Studio 2013 and can just work with it.
Is that right? Or is there a good reason or need to do a conversion to a
Visual Studio 2013 solution.
Or better: Is there any good reason to not stick with the old Visual Studio 2010 solution?
Visual Studio 2013 can open a sln file created by Visual Studio 2010. However, Visual Studio 2010 can not open a sln file created by Visual Studio 2013.
The easiest way to see this is to open the sln file in a text editor and look at the first 2 lines:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio has a version setting in the header (this example is from VS 2012). An older version of the tool wont open the file.
Beyond that there aren't really any big differences in the file. There are certain project types (ie Project("{guid}") that aren't supported in older version of Visual Studio. For example a Visual Studio 2013 SDK project can only be opened with Visual Studio 2013.
To wrap up, if you have an existing Visual Studio 2010 sln file, there isn't really any need to change it. If you plan on opening it again in VS2010 then make sure you don't change it. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it and just let VS do whatever makes VS happy.