Upgrading projects to Whidbey

Note: this entry has moved.

A significant problem I found while converting projects to Whidbey is that VS 2002 projects are not supported. But instead of being told so, you simply get an IDE error message saying "Operation could not be completed". Not too helpful, huh? And I found the workaround only because I opened the project in VS 2003 and at that moment noticed it was a 2002 one!

The project was the ASP.NET Forums

Another issue I found with this project is that the "xml" project file saved invalid entities in attribute values. It included the following file name: <File RelPath = "skins\default\images\topic-pinned&locked.gif" BuildAction = "Content" /> Note that the & in the file name was not properly escaped. Seems like the project converter uses a real XML parser to perform conversion, and it failed miserably :o).

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