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Japster24
11-09-2011, 06:01 PM
Is there an easy way to swap the VS version that our projects are building from without having to add a new step for each project and copy the info from the old project to the new project?

It would be nice to just have a VisualStudio step and then within that step, have a drop-down of what version you'd like to build against. :)

Thanks!
-jp

kinook
11-09-2011, 06:20 PM
Not really, since the version of VS that can build a project is tied to the version of the project/solution file, and once VS opens/upgrades it to a new version, it can no longer be opened/built in older versions. I believe that this situation will start to improve in VS vNext (it will be able to open VS2010 projects without converting the file format).
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2011/09/01/visual-studio-vnext-ide-enhancements.aspx

Japster24
11-10-2011, 10:29 AM
Sounds good. Thanks for the quick reply, as always!