Convert projects from Visual Stuido 2005 to Visual Studio 2003

Allad

Hello, I've just installed Visual Studio 2005 and eagerly I converted the C++ project I'm working on, from Studio 2003 project format to Studio 2005 one. But I can't get the project to compile. Visual Studio 2005 compiler has been made more ISO compliant so it no longer accepts implicit int declaration. Thus, I need to convert my project back to Studio 2003 format. But I don't know how. Can someone help? Thanks

tonyro

Your 2003 sln file should still be in your directory. I think all you need to do is load that instead of the converted 2005 sln file (and delete it altogether if you don't want to eventually upgrade) and you should be go to go.

Kevin McFarlane

You might find this article of interest... http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/10919_3493706_1[^] Kevin

Nish Nishant

Allad wrote:

Visual Studio 2005 compiler has been made more ISO compliant so it no longer accepts implicit int declaration.

So why don't you go ahead and fix it? Why leave bad code in your source?

Bob Stanneveld

Hello, Did you make a backup? VS 2005 asks this before it converts the file. Anyway, as Nishant already said it: fix the errors and use the better compiler. The standard conformance is far better than any previous compiler written by Microsoft. Behind every great black man... ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]

Allad

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

So why don't you go ahead and fix it? Why leave bad code in your source?

In my project I'm using a library with thousands of code lines. And the real problem is that library. I don't dare mess with such a huge amount of code I've not written myself. Anyway thanks for replying.

Allad

Thanks for your reply. I wish I had read that article before upgrading. Now I just cant compile my project.

Allad

In the updrade log generated by VC 2005 it is said there is a backup sln file in the project directory. It is called myproject.sln.old but I can't find it even in the hidden files. Do you have any idea?

Allad

Bob Stanneveld wrote:

Did you make a backup? VS 2005 asks this before it converts the file.

In the updrade log generated by VC 2005 it is said there is a backup sln file in the project directory. It is called myproject.sln.old but I can't find it even in the hidden files. Do you have any idea?

Bob Stanneveld

Hello, Did you save the converted solution to another directory? Otherwise I don't know where the file might be. Behind every great black man... ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]