How to open Visual Studio 2010 project in Visual Studio 2008

Steps to Open VS2010 project using VS2008:

· Open the .sln file corresponding to the Project to be converted with Notepad

· Locate the following line: Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00

· Replace 11.00 with 10.00

· Locate the following line: # Visual Studio 10

· Replace 10 with 2008

· Save the File

· Delete the .cache files existing in the following paths:

o obj/debug

o obj/release

· Open the project with Visual Studio 2008

· Build the project with Visual Studio 2008

Reference: http://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2009/05/converting-visual-studio-2010-project.html