Problem when migrating from CVF to IVF

[Marc_Grodent]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert my old CVF projects (mainly console applications written under CVF Professional Edition 6.6.0) to IVF(IVF Studio XE 2011 for Windows). The procedure isclearly described in http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/migrating-from-compaq-visual-fortran/. However, after right-clicking on the workspace's .DSW file and selecting Open With "Microsoft Visual Studio Version Selector", the following message is displayed: "The project file '***.dsp' has been corrupted and cannot be opened".The project runs perfectly under CVF, so I do not understand what might cause the problem. I've also tried with other CVF projects, but the same message occurs.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Marc

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If you were going to buy Visual C++, I would suggest Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition. Microsoft no longer sells Visual C++ by itself and the Visual C++ Express Edition will not work with Intel Visual Fortran.

An alternative is to download the free 90-day trial of Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft, do your project conversions, and then switch back to the included Visual Studio Shell when done.

The Resource Editor is used when adding dialog boxes and icons to an application. If you have Visual Studio Professional or higher installed, the Resource Editor is available to you.

[starbskz]

Quoting Steve Lionel (Intel)

If you mean the evaluation VS you get from Microsoft, yes, it is.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

starbskz, I cannot see your question. Do not use the quote feature, just click Reply and enter your text. If you need to start a new topic, go ahead and do so.

[Chyczewski__Tom]

Steve,

I have a QuickWin applicaton I wrote 4-5 years ago using Compaq Visual Fortran Professional Edition 6.6a that uses a number of dialog boxes to form the GUI. Since CVF is no longer supported we bought Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Version 10.0.30319.1.RTMRel with Intel Visual Fortran Package ID: w_fcompxe_2011.6.233). I am now trying to port my CVF application to MVS and I'm having some trouble.

After reviewing this thread and other information, it looks to me like you need the professional edition of MVS in order to create/edit resources like dialog boxes, etc. Is this true? If this is true, is my effort to port my CVF application containing these resources into the non-PE version of the MVS environment futile?

If it is not futile, can you respond to the following:

I get the same response others on this thread got when they tried to open the CVF dsw file from w/in MVS (corrupt file). So I am trying to rebuild the application in MVS by hand. I brought in the source, header and resource files and tried to build. The compiler says it cannot find a header file that is referenced by the .rc file. This header file has been loaded into the project but I cannot get the compiler to find it. Can you setme straight?

Thanks in advance.

Tom

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Tom,

Loading a header file into the project does not do anything useful. Which header file is not found? The list of Include directories in Tools > Options > Intel Visual Fortran > Compilers needs to have the folder where this file is to be found.

If you purchased Microsoft Visual Studio, then it includes the resource editor for editing dialogs. If you are using the version bundled with Intel Visual Fortran, it doesn't, but there's a freeware editor at www.resedit.net that can edit resource files.

Please attach the .dsw and .dsp files from CVF (see instructions below). I don't need anything else. I will see if I can convert those for you.

[Chyczewski__Tom]

Steve,

The attached zip file has the dsw and dsp files. Thanks for your help!

Tom

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I have converted the project and attached the solution/project files here.