Visual Studio 2008 and Visual studio 2005

Question

I am developing a Windows Application using the .net Framework 2.0 and Visual C#(Microsoft Visual Studio 2008) in my PC.

On the completion of my project I have to execute it in a system which has Visual Studio 2005 and .net framework 2.0.

So my doubt is if I develop an application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 will I be able to execute it in Visual Studio 2005 properly? Is it possible?

Please help me!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The project files are compatible between the two IDEs, but the solution files are not. You may be able to execute it in VS2005 if you create a new solution in 2005 and add the projects to the new solution.

http://blogs.msdn.com/djpark/archive/2007/11/07/how-to-use-solutions-and-projects-between-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx

Answer 2

• Create the project in Visual Studio 2005
• Save a copy of it somewhere
• Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008, do your development work.
• Drop your finished project back into your original Visual Studio 2005 project and compile
• There should be minimal differences in the code so long as you don't use any .NET 3.5 features.

Note: So long as you use .NET 2.0 features only, the project will run just fine on the Visual Studio 2005 machine