Convert Back to Visual Studio 2008 - Please Help

[CoderGirl630]

I have a VB.Net application and I was using Visual Studio 2008. I tried contverting the application so I could use Visual Studio 2012.
Now I've changed my mind and I want to convert back so I can still use VS 2008.
I read an article that said I should change the version in the solution file so I did this.
Now when I run the application I get the following error message:

System.BadImageFormatException was unhandled
Message="Could not load file or assembly 'KMMDIParent, Version=1.9.32.7, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format."

Can anyone help me with this? Is it possible to convert back? Someone's help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Don't trust everything you read on the internet! Just kidding.

This may be helpful to you : https://vsprojectconverter.codeplex.com/

But I don't understand why you actually want to go back to VS 2008. It does more harm than good, staying with old versions of VS.

It is 2015, and VS 2008 is basically more than 7 years old. I can understand 2012 - which I still use, but really 2008?

[DataMiser]

Actually I use 2008 also. One major reason is that they dropped support for Windows CE and Windows Mobile devices after 2008.

While I have not had a need to go backwards I am thinking that the upgrade process creates a backup of the original, if so then just need to restore that.

If no backup then you could create a new solution and then add all the forms, classes and whatever to it. As far as I have saw it is just the solution files that get changed.