Going back from VS2005 BETA to VS 2003 possible?

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Roger

I was trying the VS2005 Beta c# development. It has now expired. I have
VS2003, is there any way of tranferring
the code (specifically the form design) into VS2003, or is is a manual job.

I suppose its taught me never to try a Beta again!

(And another thing, although I have uninstalled the Beta, its still left a
file association on the machine - is there any way
of cleaning this off preferably without flattening?)
 
Roger said:
I was trying the VS2005 Beta c# development. It has now expired. I have
VS2003, is there any way of tranferring
the code (specifically the form design) into VS2003, or is is a manual
job.

I suppose its taught me never to try a Beta again!
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The point of a Beta is to try out something you might like to use once it's
released.
(And another thing, although I have uninstalled the Beta, its still left a
file association on the machine - is there any way
of cleaning this off preferably without flattening?)
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The form design won't port back easilly. It uses partial classes, which is
a new .NET 2.0 feature.


But why not just get VS2005 (Express Edition is free). For anything beyond
the capabilities of Express Edition you can always write your code in
notepad, and compile with the command-line compilers in the .NET 2.0
Framework SDK (also free).

David
 
You can go back, providing you have not used 2.0 only features. The process
is semi-manual. Create a new 2003 project and add existing items from the
2005 project. You can then recompile the project and you are running under
2003. If you have used any 2005 features, it will balk at the compile.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Express editions, RTM, are $49, not free. You can still download the free
betas, AFAIK.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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