Visual Studio 2008 to 2005 downgrade utility
Visual Studio 2008 allows you to target .Net Framework 2.0,
so you don't have to migrate the solutions you developed in Visual Studio 2005
to a new framework version. The only
problem is that it upgrades the solution and project files, making your
solutions incompatible with Visual Studio 2005, which is a problem if you work
on a team with Visual Studio 2005 users.
This utility allows you to downgrade your 2008 C# solutions
and projects to 2005.
- If you point it to a solution file, it will locate and downgrade
the projects in that solution.
- Changing a few lines in the code will switch it to VB.Net
projects.
- It only changes version numbers and build targets, so it
will keep 2008 metadata, allowing the project to open in both versions.
- I only wrote enough code to allow my solutions to compile in
2005, so no guarantee that it will work in all cases.
VisualStudioProjectDowngrade.zip