How Do I Downgrade a C++ Visual Studio 2008 Project to 2005

Question

How can I downgrade a C++ Visual Studio 2008 project to visual studio 2005?

Maybe there is a converter program that someone knows of or otherwise a process that I can undertake. Thanks.

Answer 1

I have no idea how well it works, but here's an open source converter tool:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/vspc

that was an extension to the tool outlined in this article:

• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/vsconvert.aspx

Answer 2

I always hate to edit the .sln/proj files by hand, since they can be so picky and problematic. It might be easiest to just create a new project in 2005, and just copy all the code files back into it.