Question Can Visual Studio Express Open Visual Studio Projects?

[jsurpless]

A co-worker of mine has Visual Studio 2008 with Visual Basic 2008 9.0.21022.8 RTM...

I have Visual Studio Express 2008 installed...

When I tried opening the project he sent me, I got an error stating that the .vbproj isn't supported by my version...

Thanks!

 

[JohnH]

I've never had problems loading projects with VB Express in any version, so it should not be a compatibility issue.
If you don't have SP1 installed that should be done, same for co-worker.
Try searching ".vbproj is not supported by this version", various fixes should come up that may work.

 

[jmcilhinney]

What type of project is it? If it's for a Windows app (Windows Forms, WPF, etc) then you need to be using VB Express. If it's for a web app then you need to be using Visual Web Developer Express.