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Craig W
Craig W

Reputation: 4540

How can you batch upgrade solution files to open in Visual Studio 2013?

This is similar to How to force a Solution file (SLN) to be opened in Visual Studio 2013? but not the same. I have a bunch of .sln files associated with Visual Studio Version Selector. However, they all contain # Visual Studio 2012 but I would like them to open in Visual Studio 2013 instead. I can open the solution files with the /upgrade flag as per this link. However, it simply says 

This project/solution does not require migration. It will open without modification.

and doesn't change the files, therefore they still open in VS2012. You can explicitly open the solution in Visual Studio 2013 and do a Save As, but this is a very manual process and I have hundreds of solutions. Surely there is a better way than a find/replace in files?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 995

Answers (2)

CAD bloke
CAD bloke

Reputation: 8828

I haven't tried this yet but... using the command in the format devenv "MyProject.sln" /upgrade you could recurse all the folders and upgrade all the .sln, .csproj etc files. I got the devenv ... /upgrade from https://stackoverflow.com/a/27625352/492

Upvotes: 0

Radenko Zec
Radenko Zec

Reputation: 7669

You must right click on solution file - > open with - > Choose default program and then choose visual studio 2013 and mark checkbox "Use this app for all .sln files"

Upvotes: 0

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