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Converting VS 2010 solution file to VS 2008 & VS 2005

Follow the steps below to get result



1. Take a backup of your .sln file, incase of corruption we can get it back. 

2. If your sln file is under any source control, then check out only solution file from source control

3. Now we are ready to get things fix, here our .sln file before conversion

Before_conversion

4. Right click on your VS 2010 .sln file and Open it with the help of Notepad, it should look as below

sln_Notepad

5. Now, we have to change the "Format Version" from "11.0" to "10.0" if you want to convert .sln in visual 2008 and "9.0" if you want to convert .sln in visual 2005
6. One more steps is to convert "Visual Studio" version from "2010" to "2008" or "2005" as per requirement.
here i convert it to 2008, after conversion it will look as below

After_Conversion

7. Now, double click on .sln file and get it run.
8. You need to change the .net framework version also, it can be done by just replacing the framework version from 4.0 to 3.5 for VS 2008 and so on.

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