Upgrading project from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2013

Question

I am trying to upgrade my project to Visual Studio 2013. For upgrading I simply opened the project with Visual Studio 2013. But no conversion dialog was shown and when the project is opened it has Visual Studio 2012 written in brackets (See snapshot):

What is the meaning of Visual Studio 2012 written in brackets. And is there anyway to convert this project to Visual Studio 2013 manually ?

Answer 1

There should be a Update C++ Project in the Project menu or context menu.

The parenthesis means that VS 2013 will use toolset of VS 2012 because the project hasn't been upgraded to VS 2013.

See:

How to: Upgrade Visual C++ Projects to Visual Studio 2013

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh690665(v=vs.120).aspx

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Answer 2

Thanks Carlos, and I agree.

Please upgrade your C++ project and see.

Also, please help us mark a reply as answer if it help you out.

Thanks for your cooperation. 

Best regards,

Fletcher

 

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Answer 3

Thanks Carlos.