How to convert hundreds of VS2005 soltions to VS2008?

[coder21k]

I am facing a tedious task of converting whole application(which have hundreds of solution files) from visual studio 2005 to visual studio 2008. Please help in minizing the work of opening every solution file in 2008 and converting and saving. Also please help me in chaging the project settings for all these files at once and building all the solutions.

[T2102]

Ouch. Please let me know if you learn how to update these automatically via the command line. For the project settings, I have all of my projects using .vsprops files for project settings. You also might be able to modify the .vcproj files, but back them up first just in case.

[KarstenK]

make a backup of the 2005 files and than convert a simple project and compare the differences. So sometimes you only have to change a version string. :rolleyes:

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[Joe Woodbury]

I don't know of an automated tool. I do know that the VS 2008 converter sometimes makes mistakes, the most notorious of which is failing to bring over the /O2 optimize setting in release builds.

[224917]

Seems you can run VS 2008 with command line parameter "/convert". Hope this[^] article helps.

-Suhredayan

[coder21k]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I know using the command promt to convert the files to vs2008. But again it will open up the wizard to convert. I am expecting a tool/shortcut methos to convert a series of .sln files located in a folder at one shot. Is it possible to do that?