Solutions and Backward Compatibility

[Ralf]

Are solutions/projects backward compatible?

I use VS 2010 with the latest IVF compiler (12.1.0.233) - colleagues use VS2008 and also 2005 and I would like to share a solution/project.

Cheers

-Ralf

[bendel_boy1]

The solutions are not backwards compatible. (or, at least, VS in improting a project puts up a message that the solution needs to be upgraded, and that the upgrade will not be backwards compatible). But it is easy enough to create in the oldest version, and use that with the later versions, as they will upgrade to their format.

[Ralf]

Thanks, that does not really help though

It would be good if one could save projects for 2008, or for 2005 versions.

Cheers

-Ralf

[Steven_L_Intel1]

There's two levels of compatibility here for Fortran. One is the solution level, which is regulated by VS. The other is the Fortran level. We change the Fortran project version less frequently. VS does not provide any level of backward compatibility in .sln files, and Intel Fortran also does not provide backward compatibility, though as I noted it tends to be less of an issue. We are still using "11.0" as the project version.