I am trying to open a “vbproj” file that was written in .net 2.0 under Visual Studio 2005.
The problem is that when I try to open it with VS 2005, the conversion wizard appears and asks me to convert that project.
Please any one has met this issue..?
I need your help
Thanks you in advance
The vbproj metafile has to be from a previous version. If you open that file in a notepad text editor you can verify the version in there. You should covert regardless without any major issues. Just back up the source and the associated .vb files.
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I have installed Visual Studio 2012 (aka 11) and uninstalled 2010. However I noticed that solution (.sln) files show an icon that has a little "10" on it while others have "11", with no seeming pattern. They are all solutions that I started out using in 2010 but have since worked on in 11. Why is this?
EDIT:
I noticed that I if I open the .sln file in a text editor, the "10" icon corresponds to:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
And the "11" icon corresponds to:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
Yes you read that right (!!!)
EDIT:
What if I change the .sln file in the text editor from 11.00 to 12.00? Is that recommended?
From what I've been able to figure out:
If you make any change inside Visual Studio that causes it to change the .sln file (i.e. adding a text file at the solution level, then deleting it, then doing "Save All"), the header of the .sln file will change to:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2012
and the icon will change to "11".
You can manually change the header if you want and the same thing will happen.
However, the icon and header really don't matter... you can leave it as is and everything will work fine because the file format is the same as VS2010.
I'm not sure what will happen if you change the headers to 12.00 as above and then try to open it in VS2010
Ignore the file format version number. It would have kept in sync with the VS version number, if it wasn't for VS2003, version 7.1. Essentially a major maintenance release for VS2002, the version that first introduced .NET support. So it's off-by-one right now.
The file format versions have increased with every VS release. That caused a lot of pain, when you worked in a team you'd have a pretty big headache if not all of the team members moved to the next version at the same time. Lots of questions about it at SO.
That changed in VS2012, it is the first version of VS that can read and write the solution and project files of the previous version. Which explains what you see, your VS2010 projects just never got converted, even after opening it in VS2012. Nice feature.
My teacher is complaining that he can't read the VS2012 format on his VS2010 environment. I looked around in settings and so on but couldn't find anything. How can I give the project in an VS2010 readable format to my teacher?
Modifying sln manually
Backup your project folder (copy/paste to another location, like a folder called "backups")
Open sln file on wordpad
Change the "header" of opened sln to below (the first lines that matches mentioned lines below, except by version number/name):
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
I'll see if there is a way to do it in project options...
If the VS2010 installation has SP1 installed, then it should be able to read the VS2012 solution file.
Assuming this is not a terribly complex project (I'm making that assumption since there is a teacher involved), the easiest approach may be just to re-create the project in Visual Studio 2010.
Fire up VS2010, add your files, make any necessary changes to settings, and save.
You will need VS2010 no matter what approach you take. Even if you convert the project file by other means, it would be very wise to test it before handing it in again. The Express edition is free.
Another easy way to do it is to right click on the source code, open it with a program such as notepad, then save that on to a USB stick. When you go to class, copy and paste this into Visual Studio 2010 and viola.
My teacher is complaining that he can't read the VS2012 format on his VS2010 environment. I looked around in settings and so on but couldn't find anything. How can I give the project in an VS2010 readable format to my teacher?
Modifying sln manually
Backup your project folder (copy/paste to another location, like a folder called "backups")
Open sln file on wordpad
Change the "header" of opened sln to below (the first lines that matches mentioned lines below, except by version number/name):
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
I'll see if there is a way to do it in project options...
If the VS2010 installation has SP1 installed, then it should be able to read the VS2012 solution file.
Assuming this is not a terribly complex project (I'm making that assumption since there is a teacher involved), the easiest approach may be just to re-create the project in Visual Studio 2010.
Fire up VS2010, add your files, make any necessary changes to settings, and save.
You will need VS2010 no matter what approach you take. Even if you convert the project file by other means, it would be very wise to test it before handing it in again. The Express edition is free.
Another easy way to do it is to right click on the source code, open it with a program such as notepad, then save that on to a USB stick. When you go to class, copy and paste this into Visual Studio 2010 and viola.
I'm working with Castle Monorails and NVelocity as a view engine. The syntax highlighting works when I go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > File Extension and add "vm" to "HTML Editor" on Editor Experience.
Here's the exception:
When a file does not start with a tag, but with velocity syntax, the syntax highlighting fails. Example
#*
Some comment with development notes about this file..
*#
<div>
<p>The actual markup</p>
</div>
Anyone have a fix for this issue?
Try using CVSI (Castle Visual Studio Integration), it's a colorizer and IntelliSense for NVelocity.
I downloaded CSVI for my VS 2013 and nothing worked (neither color coding nor intellisense)
I also removed Cached registry values, tried rebooting my system nothing worked. Color coding works in VS 2005 but not on 2010 or 2013. Am I missing anything?
here is what I did I have downloaded vsix file and ran it it opened a command prompt and did something and nothing happens after that. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
http://jonorossi.com/blog/2014/05/31/castle-visual-studio-integration-0.5.0/
Thanks
Here is what I did
1. renamed vsix to zip updated extension.vsixmanifest XML file to support .net 2.0 version to 4.5
2. Built a zip File again with all libraries and manifest file then renamed it back to vsix.
3. Right CLick on .vsix file Open With MS Visual Studio Version selector and then Install.
The above 3 steps did the trick.
Found some old code, circa VS 2003. Now I have just VS 2008 (SP1) installed. When I try opening the *.sln file, it tries converting the projects. The report notifies me it was done successfully, but the solution is empty, marked with "project file was unloaded".
VS 2008 doesn't even include opening a *.vcproj file.
Does anyone have any idea how I can convert my solution?
PS: I found several conversion tools that convert from VS 2005 to 2008 and vice versa - no one looks back to 2003 :(
As always, thanks for your assistance and time!
I suggest manually converting the project by creating a new proj. If you are having trouble now then there will be no way that you can be certain later by trying some other import method.
On a side note- I am on vs2005 and I often get 2008 projects handed to me. I go into the sln and proj files and rename the version numbers and it works perfectly. Hope that works for you!
Maybe you could first convert your solution from VS2003 to VS2005 and then do one more conversion from VS2005 to VS2008 ???
Seconding Klathzazts "manually changing the version numbers." this is often the best solution for dealing with VSC++ when something goes wrong in the upgrade process.