Comments on: I hate and loath the Visual Studio Conversion Wizard

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:40:07 +0000

I have the opposite. It pisses me off that when I open a project with the version SELECTOR, that I can not SELECT anything. It’s not a selector, it’s a CONVERTER, and if I wanted to convert anything I will do that myself. I just want to OPEN an existing project. I really HATE the “SELECTOR”

By: Tobias Hertkorn

Tobias Hertkorn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:10:00 +0000

Hey Hans,

could you be a bit more specific about “Extras/Options”? Thanks.

Tobi

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:24:38 +0000

Just disable this behavior under Extras/Options…

By: Tobias Hertkorn

Tobias Hertkorn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:18:57 +0000

Hey graye. 100 cool points. thanks!

By: graye

graye — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:26 +0000

I’ve written a little project converter utility to make it easy to convert back and forth between VS2005 and VS2008. The ProjectConverter application is available as VB.Net/C# source code at: http://home.hot.rr.com/graye/Articles/ProjectConverter.htm

By: Barbequor

Barbequor — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:42:23 +0000

Hi Tobias,

By default, VS solution files (*.sln) are bound to the Visual Studio Version Selector, which starts the right version of Visual Studio by examining the solution file. You can bind solution files to Visual Studio 2008 by right clicking on one and selecting ‘Open with’, and then in ‘Choose program…’ select the Visual Studio 2008 executable and check ‘Always use the selected program to open this kind of file’.

This still does not prevent the solution conversion wizard from appearing, but at least you won’t have to deinstall VS 2005

Hope this helps!