

For more information, see the Port, migrate, and upgrade Visual Studio Projects page.

If you try to use Visual Studio 2019 to open a solution that was created in Visual Studio 2017 or an earlier version, you might need to modify your projects and files to be compatible with Visual Studio 2019.

If you use Visual Studio 2019 to open a solution that was created in Visual Studio 2017, you can later open and modify the solution again in the earlier version as long as you haven't implemented any features that are specific to Visual Studio 2019. You can install Visual Studio on a computer that has an earlier or later version of Visual Studio already installed.īefore you install versions side-by-side, review the following conditions: Install Visual Studio versions side-by-side
