how to open a project of Framework2.0 in VS2010 without converting the project

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I dunno whether its posiible or not but i couldnt find anything useful when i searched the same question in google.

Q: I have an old project which is created in framework 2.0.now in my pc i have only VS2010.I want to open that website without converting the framework because i have used some dlls which supports 2.0 only...
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Posted 20-Sep-11 21:35pm

vajisha

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Yuri Vital 21-Sep-11 3:44am

The project was probably made with VS2005 or VS2008.

The conversion affect only VS Files, you can still target the framework 2.0 after.

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Mario Majčica · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-20T21:56:00

Solution 1

Read this document and you will find your answer

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/15/why-does-visual-studio-2010-convert-my-projects.aspx[^]

Cheers!

Posted 20-Sep-11 21:56pm

Mario Majčica

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vajisha 21-Sep-11 5:26am

i read the post,thanks for the response.By reading that I think the only solution to my prob is to install VS 2008 or 2005.

Mario Majčica 21-Sep-11 5:33am

Yes it is!