HOW TO: Upgrade Visual InterDev 6.0 Applications That Are Under Source Code Control to Visual Studio .NET (316182)

SUMMARY

This step-by-step article explains how to upgrade a project that is under source code control from Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 to Visual Studio .NET.

To do this, follow this process:

• Create a new Web project that interacts with an existing Visual InterDev application. When you create the new Web project, all the extra files that the new Web application needs are also created.
• Move files into your new Web application as you upgrade them.

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When to Use This Method

This procedure is recommended in the following situations:

• When you want Visual Studio .NET to create all the associated files for you when you create the new Web project.
• When you want to upgrade a project that is under source control with Visual SourceSafe. This results in a branch of your project history, and you cannot access earlier versions of your Visual InterDev project as part of your Visual Studio .NET project.

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Upgrade the Project

1. Start Visual Studio .NET.
2. On the File menu, click New, and then click Project.
3. Select either Visual Basic Projects or Visual C# Projects under Project Types, and then double-click the New Project In Existing Folder under Templates.
4. Click Browse to find and then to select the folder that contains your Visual InterDev project.
5. In Solution Explorer, right-click the new project, point to Add, and then click Add existing item.
6. In the Files of type list, click the drop-down arrow, and then click All Files.
7. Select the files from your Visual InterDev project that you want to add to your Visual Studio .NET project.

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Projects Under Source Code Control

The "Upgrading Visual InterDev 6.0 Applications to Visual Studio .NET" topic in the Visual Studio .NET Help documentation does not include the scenario in which Visual InterDev 6.0 projects are in the source code control system. If you follow the instructions in this Help topic, you create a new project in Visual SourceSafe that does not inherit the version history from the Visual InterDev project. Because of this lack of version history, further development in Visual Studio .NET is not added to the original version history of the project because the projects are branched from each other when the project is created in Visual Studio .NET.

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REFERENCES

For more information about how to migrate Visual InterDev 6.0 projects to Visual Studio .NET, refer to the "Upgrading Visual InterDev 6.0 Applications to Visual Studio .NET" topic in the Visual Studio .NET Help documentation.

For more information about how to migrate Visual InterDev 6.0 projects to Visual Studio .NET, refer to the following topic in the Visual Studio .NET Help documentation or on MSDN: