For anyone out there who cares, I was getting an error loading Visual Studio 6 project files (.dsp) using Visual Studio .NET 2003. The error said "Cannot load the project due to a corrupt project file" but gave no indication as to how to fix the problem, and there wasn't any solution online that I could quickly find. The answer turned out to be that the .dsp files needed to be converted to DOS file format rather than Unix. I'm not sure why VS6 would create the .dsp files in Unix format, or if the FTP server converted them, but once I opened the files and converted them to DOS using emacs "C-x ENT f dos" and re-saved them, .NET 2003 opened them just fine. (DOS text files have carriage returns and line feed characters at the end of every line, whereas Unix text files only have line feeds.)
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Thank you so f*cking much dude. That was driving me NUTS !!! You saved me, THANK YOU !!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Thank you!
Hi,
i have a dll project that works with evc 3 and evc 4 and it uses pocketsoap and expat parser, and it staticly links with sqlite project, first i am having the error message "corrupted file" when open the vcp project by visual studio 2005, created new project and added my files and yet am having hundreds errors.
any idea why the corrupted project file message, any clue or reccomendations for the project settings for 2005, any guidlines,
thanx in advance