How to Open Visual Studio 2013 Solution in MonoDevelop

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My Toshiba Laptop had started running slow recently and, quite frankly, I was tired of Windows 8, so I created a USB of the most recent version of Linux Mint and installed it, moving all my needed projects to GitHub.

I installed MonoDevelop because I know of its tendency for WinForms, but when I try opening the .sln file it opens it in a text editor in MonoDevelop rather than as a solution. I have two major Solutions I need to develop Yahtzee and GemsCraft.

How do I open these solutions in MonoDevelop? Yahtzee is in VisualBasic and GemsCraft is in C#

Perhaps this question could be migrated to Stack Overflow. – Agi Hammerthief Mar 14 '14 at 19:41 — Agi Hammerthief, Mar 14 '14 at 19:41

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 12 '15 at 14:07

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MonoDevelop 4.2.2 supports Visual Studio 2013 Solutions normally, but you will need change ToolsVersion in your projects. Open each one of the projects in your solution, but open using a text editor your .csproj file and change ToolsVersion="12.0" to ToolsVersion="4.0",

edited Jan 12 '15 at 14:07

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answered May 22 '14 at 13:27

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what is the impact of such update ? won't that confuse VS ? – nicolas Oct 15 '15 at 13:52
VS deals with this pretty good (at least 2012 and 2015), so, dont worry – wizzard0 Jan 28 '16 at 10:38

How to Open Visual Studio 2013 Solution in MonoDevelop

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