Compatibility issue between Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

Question

Hello I have a web application that was originally written using Visual Studio 2005. I have made some changes to one of the projects using Visual Web Developer 2010. This seems to create problems with the files created in Visual Studio 2005. I tried to rebuild the project in Visual Studio but when I open it I loose references and if I try to add them again the path to the file I want to reference is not created making the reference invalid. However if I open the same project with Visual Web Developer the references are fine. How could I if possible make the project compatible with both IDEs? Thank you.

Sukesh Marla · Answer

You are always welcome Check this is correct answer if it helped

Cyrille Rey · Answer

Hi Sukesh Thank you for your answer. I will try that.

Sukesh Marla · Answer

See Visual studio 2005 and 2010 have there own type pf solution files - .sln If you try to open 2005 in 2010 it will ask to convert but it wont alllow vice versa If you want to work on both ides then one trick is create project in 2005 save solution file in some location. Now reopen the project in 2010 and save solution file with some other name i had similar problem sometime before and i did the same  kept 2 solution(.sln) files Check this is correct answer if it helped