Monthly Archives: February 2012

Upgrading old Visual Studio Solutions

I recently had to upgrade some old Visual Studio 2003 (!) solutions and projects to Visual Studio 2010. I tried to do that just by opening the solution and let the conversion wizard to its job. I had some challenges … Continue reading

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Error Upgrading Database Project Using Visual Studio 2010

I recently upgraded a database project (.dbp file) to Visual Studio 2010. All I got was an error saying “database project not converted” and “Illegal characters in path”. I turned out that the project file was in ANSI encoding and … Continue reading

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