Running Visual Studio 2008 Project in VS 2005

How to run a Visual studio project compiled in Visual Studio 2008? If you try to open in other versions of Visual Studio you will get all sort of errors. It simply won't allow backward compatibility but there's a workaround for this and it's a very simple one.

First thing you need to do is look into the vcproj XML file and edit the Version from "9.0" to "8.0".
visualstudioproject>
?xml version="1.0" encoding="shift_jis"?>
VisualStudioProject
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="8.00" <====================== Change!
Name="testProject"
ProjectGUID="{F340E287-7744-4B6B-882F-C176926FB1F4}"
RootNamespace="test"
Keyword="Win32Proj"
TargetFrameworkVersion="196613"