# Trouble opening IronRuby.sln

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-opening-ironruby-sln/136841>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [May 6, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-opening-ironruby-sln/136841 "2008-05-06T19:48:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aaron_Blondeau)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-opening-ironruby-sln/136841/1 "2008-05-06T19:48:11Z")

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I am having trouble opening the latest (rev 101) IronRuby with  
VisualStudio  
2005. Nothing happens at all when I try to open IronRuby.sln - not even  
an  
error message. I have been able to open the individual .csproj files by  
themselves and get everything put together, just not the top level .sln  
file. Is it expected that the source will still work with VS2005 or do  
I  
need to move to VS2008 or could my issue be something else?

-Aaron Blondeau

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aaron_Blondeau)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-opening-ironruby-sln/136841/2 "2008-05-07T07:25:49Z")

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Aaron Blondeau:

> I am having trouble opening the latest (rev 101) IronRuby with  
> VisualStudio 2005. Nothing happens at all when I try to open  
> IronRuby.sln - not even an error message. I have been able to open  
> the individual .csproj files by themselves and get everything put  
> together, just not the top level .sln file. Is it expected that the  
> source will still work with VS2005 or do I need to move to VS2008 or  
> could my issue be something else?

I know I don’t have any problems opening with VS 2008. Is anyone else on  
the list still using VS 2005?

Thanks,  
-John

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Aaron\_Blondeau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aaron_Blondeau)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-opening-ironruby-sln/136841/3 "2008-05-07T07:55:44Z")

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Yes, I still use VS 2005. I have the same problem trying to open 2008  
solution files. I just create my own VS 2005 solution file and add the  
existing projects to it - it works fine. Inside each project I also need  
to manually redefine the references to mscorlib and System.dll version  
2.0.5.0.

Cheers, Wayne.