Migrating VS 2005 Packages to VS 2008

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If you like to read the MSDN Forums like I do, you’ve probably seen quite a few questions about how to migrate Visual Studio 2005 packages to Visual Studio 2008. You may have even run into a few quirks yourself. Most of the time you can just follow a few steps as James Lau outlined.

  1. Update build targets in project file
  2. Remove <TargetRegistryRoot> element
  3. Add Shell 9.0 references
  4. Update project debug properties.

 Sometimes things can get tricky. Lucky for us, Quan To has published a post on how to migrate from VS 2005 to VS 2008, with pointers to handy documents.