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Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:56:47 AM


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Hi,

I have a VS 2003 project that is all checked into source safe. I wanted
to convert it to VS 2008 on my new dev box. Here are the steps I did:

1) Get latest from source safe into
c:\GTSSRC\GTSWebOrder

2) Double click on sln

A number of things happen that I don't understand. The worst of which
is that it gets latest from source safe again into a sub folder. So now
I have another complete copy of the GTSWebOrder folder under my original
GTSWebOrder.

How do I prevent it from doing this?

I found an MSDN article that said to create a virtual directory first,
but this didn't seem work either.


Thanks

Randy
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Dandle
Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:08:12 AM


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Sorry didn't mean to post that as Microsoft. I were MS I would just ask
myself.




In article <MPG.225fef58cdd99374989680@news.supernews.com>,
nospam@nospam.com says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a VS 2003 project that is all checked into source safe. I wanted
> to convert it to VS 2008 on my new dev box. Here are the steps I did:
>
> 1) Get latest from source safe into
> c:\GTSSRC\GTSWebOrder
>
> 2) Double click on sln
>
> A number of things happen that I don't understand. The worst of which
> is that it gets latest from source safe again into a sub folder. So now
> I have another complete copy of the GTSWebOrder folder under my original
> GTSWebOrder.
>
> How do I prevent it from doing this?
>
> I found an MSDN article that said to create a virtual directory first,
> but this didn't seem work either.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy
>
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Phil Wilson
Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008 5:32:57 AM


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My guess is that this is the automatic backup feature. I think if you run VS
2008 first and then open your solution the conversion wizard will ask if you
want a backup, and say no (since you have one in source control).

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"Microsoft" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.225fef58cdd99374989680@news.supernews.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a VS 2003 project that is all checked into source safe. I wanted
> to convert it to VS 2008 on my new dev box. Here are the steps I did:
>
> 1) Get latest from source safe into
> c:\GTSSRC\GTSWebOrder
>
> 2) Double click on sln
>
> A number of things happen that I don't understand. The worst of which
> is that it gets latest from source safe again into a sub folder. So now
> I have another complete copy of the GTSWebOrder folder under my original
> GTSWebOrder.
>
> How do I prevent it from doing this?
>
> I found an MSDN article that said to create a virtual directory first,
> but this didn't seem work either.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy


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Dandle
Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008 10:33:38 AM


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Thanks for the reply.

I tried that. I think what is happening is that for some reason VS 2008
web projects do not like to have the .sln file in the same folder as the
project. It is like in insists on being in the parent folder of the
project.



In article <#0TZwqolIHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
phil.wilson@wonderware.something.com says...
> My guess is that this is the automatic backup feature. I think if you run VS
> 2008 first and then open your solution the conversion wizard will ask if you
> want a backup, and say no (since you have one in source control).
>
>
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