Converting VS projects

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I have many VS2005 projects and i want to convert them into VS2022.
Is it possible ?

What I have tried:

I read somewhere that VS2005 can be opened up to VS2017 at most. Is it true ?

Posted 22-Aug-24 7:49am

AndreaHS

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Dave Kreskowiak 22-Aug-24 14:13pm

First question. What happened when you tried it?

AndreaHS 22-Aug-24 14:21pm

I haven't done anything yet. I was just wondering what version of VS I should get

RedDk 23-Aug-24 15:20pm

And to add to what the Solutions beneath here hint might work, as a last ditch effort to get something to compile, create a completely new default project in your latest version of VS and, one by one, pick the files out of the old project and "Add" them as "Existing Item" through the appropriate folder found in the New Project Solution Explorer treeview. You'll doubtless have to fiddle with ALL the settings ... but as I said this is last ditch.

I say ALL but there are guides to aid in zeroing in your new "OLD" settings and they can be found in the various untouched .<lang>proj, .sln, or ... (s'been so long since I opened an old VS6 file I'm blanking on the antique extension name ... )

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Jo_vb.net · Answer 1 · 2024-08-22T10:01:00

Solution 1

This SO topic may help you
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60937466/vs-2019-how-to-upgrade-visual-basic-net-projects[^]

Another way is this
Use native multi-targeting in Visual Studio to build old projects | Microsoft Learn[^]

Posted 22-Aug-24 10:01am

Jo_vb.net

cmarcotte · Answer 2 · 2024-08-22T20:24:00

I tried this, but I don't think there's a definitely clear answer. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it dindn't worked. It should be done one program by one. Open your solution with VS2022. If it can convert, it will do and produce a report. The main problem is more about old net framework maybe no longer supported. You will nedd change framework in project properties and rebuild solution. You may need rewrite some parts of code. You may also encounter problems with libraries or ActiveX controls no longer supported or no longer sold.

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I just remember. A long time ago I overcomed a somewhat similar problem of different VS version with creating a new solution in other VS version and importing existing code in new version,