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As several of the commenters have already helpfully pointed out, this is not possible. Round-tripping (i.e.<\/em>, opening and manipulating project files created by an older version of Visual Studio in a newer version of Visual Studio) was not supported until Visual Studio 11<\/a>. The only way to open a Visual Studio 2008 project\/solution in a later version of Visual Studio will be to convert it.<\/p>\n

As far as interoperability with previous versions is concerned, you have two options:<\/p>\n

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    Update the project locally (using the migration wizard provided), make any changes to the project file necessary to get it to build, and then edit the code files. Once you’re satisfied with your edits, commit only<\/em> the modified source files, not<\/em> the project infrastructure files. Your fellow developers, stuck on VS 2008, won’t notice any difference.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Update the project locally (using the migration wizard provided), make any changes to the project file necessary to get it to build, and then rename<\/em> the project file (e.g.<\/em>, by appending a -vs2013<\/code> suffix to it). Commit this to your code repository. You will now have two project files in your root directory, one for each version of Visual Studio that your team works with. From here on, you just open the project file corresponding to the version of VS that you have installed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I used approach #1 for a good part of last year, where I spent most of my time developing a C++ application in VS 2010 on a desktop machine, but also wanted to work on it on my notebook running VS 2013. Of course, in my case, it took a trivial amount of time for the automatic conversion to upgrade my project file after pulling from source control. I didn’t have to do any tweaking thereafter to get the project to build. It sounds like your case is different, so option #2 might be a better choice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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