Yep, I can open in VS08 now. It still wants to convert Lucene.Net to the newer format. I'm sure I remember a discussion about this. The opinion seemed to be that that wasn't desirable. Has that changed now? +1 from me
On 10 March 2010 19:47, Digy <digyd...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's OK now. > DIGY. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Garski [mailto:mgar...@myspace-inc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:25 PM > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: How do you open Contrib.net? > > I re-created the solution file and verified I was able to open it from > Windows Explorer and committed the change. Let me know if this corrects the > issue. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Digy [mailto:digyd...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:58 AM > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: How do you open Contrib.net? > >> Windows Explorer does not recognise it as a VS solutions file > I have the same problem too. > > DIGY > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Garski [mailto:mgar...@myspace-inc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:09 PM > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: How do you open Contrib.net? > > Andy, > > I have no problems in opening the solution in VS2008 and I'm not sure > why the icon is different. You are correct in that the solution > contains a reference to the Lucene.Net project in the solution as > opposed to an assembly reference, and it will convert the Lucene.Net > project to a VS2008 project when it opens. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Pook [mailto:andy.p...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:40 AM > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: How do you open Contrib.net? > > Sounds like a dumb question... > > Windows Explorer does not recognise it as a VS solutions file. The > icon has the VS symbol (lower right) but not the version number > (usually top right). > Using File|Open in VS shows the Conversion wizard. The report at the > end says that it has converted Lucene.Net.csproj. > > Opening the file in notepad shows that the Lucene project is included > in the solution. I'm pretty sure that including a VS05 project in a > VS08 solution is not possible (without conversion). > > I'm assuming that this was done so that the Contrib.Net projects could > have a project reference. Until we can convert everything to a later > VS version we will have to change this to be a file reference instead > (to "..\..\src\Lucene.Net\bin\Debug\Lucene.Net.dll" and "Release" as > appropriate). > > Or am I missing something? > > Cheers > > > > >
