Migrating SharePoint 2007 VS.NET 2008 Project to SP2010 VS.NET 2010 Project

Question

I copied over my SP2007 VS.NET 2008 project to my 2010 box and opened it in vs.net 2010

it prompted me to migrate and migration was successful. I changed the target .net version from 2.0 to 3.5 and everything got compiled as well.

BUT

when I right click on the project VS.NET 2010 does not give me the options to build wsp. From project icon it seems my migrated project is being treated as a .NET project template rather than SharePoint project template.

How do I convert this into a sharepoint project template and then build wsp?

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Answer 1

Hello,

Here is a post about upgrading your 2007 solution to 2010:

http://summit7systems.com/blogs/author/steve-jenkins/

The starting point is creating a new empty sharepoint 2010 solutionand after that it basically comes down to adding your existing 2007 projects to your new solution.

Hope this helps

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Answer 2

Ah.... not a proper solution... is it going to be the same way between VS.NET 2010 and VS.NET 2012?

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Answer 3

You can also try this third party tool:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/VSeWSSImport

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Answer 4

Hi,

You may refer this article http://praveenbattula.blogspot.in/2011/07/upgrade-sharepoint-2007-visual-studio.html

Thanks

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Satyam MCITP, MCPD