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Mixed development environment Visual Studio 2010 and 2008 possible?

We're looking at migrating to Visual Studio 2010. Is it possible for some developers to use Visual Studio 2010 and others to use 2008 in the same solution / projects? How will this affect our VSTF builds (VSTF Server 2008)?

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You will need to have separate 2008 and 2010 solution / project files as they are in different formats - hence the conversion wizard - but you will be able to share other source code files from a shared location. Also, keep in mind that you will also have to limit the target structure to 3.5 or below to accommodate VS2008.



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You need to have a separate solution file for each version of Visual Studio for this to work. Project files will work on both VS2008 and VS2010 after conversion.

What you need to do is make a copy of the VS2008 source file. I find it easiest to provide a copy of the name that ends in _VS2008.sln to show that it is for VS2008. After you have saved the xxx_VS2008.sln file next to your original sln file, you can open the original and convert it to VS2010. When finished, you can rename the converted file to end with _VS2010 so that anyone still running VS2008 won't open it from their recent projects in Visual Studio and wonder what is going on.



We did this when we moved from 2005 to 2008, and we are doing the same now that we are going from 2008 to 2010. Worked great the first time around and still works on VS2010 for almost a week now without any of our developers reporting problems with it.

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once a project converted by vs2010 it will only open in vs2008 because vs2010 changes the tool version in the solution / project files. Therefore, you need to maintain two versions of solution / project files.

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