To open a visual studio 2013 project with visual studio 2010
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Solution
1st you have to download and install MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010. you can download it using this link ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30683 )
Then open your solution file in notepad. Make these 2 changes
1) Replace "Format Version 13.00" with "Format Version 11.00" (without quotes.)
2) Replace "# Visual Studio 2013" with "# Visual Studio 2010" (without quotes.)
This will solve your problem. If you still get an incompatible error, try following change also.
3) if you had .NET 4.5 selected as the default .NET version in your VS2013 project and your VS2010 environment does not support that. To fix that, open the VS2013 .csproj file in a text editor and change the TargetFrameworkVersion down to 4.0 (from 4.5 or 4.5.2). VS2010 will then happily load the "edited" solution and projects.
You'll also have to edit an app.config files that have references to .NET 4.5 in a similar way to allow them to run on a .NET 4.0 environment.
Thatz worked for me.
Problem
I need to open a Visual studio 2013 project with Visual studio 2010. It is possible ? Thanks. I tried but It generate a compatibility error. my project is a MVC4 solution thanks a lot for yours answers