Introduction

Currently I am working on migrating a SharePoint 2010 custom application to a SharePoint 2013 on-premise environment. I want to upgrade the SharePoint 2010 Farm solutions to SharePoint 2013. In this article we will see how to upgrade the SharePoint 2010 solution to SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2010 Solution

I have created a SharePoint 2010 custom Farm solution using Visual Studio 2010. This solution contains the following items.

custom form

SharePoint 2013 Environment

I am using a Cloudshare environment that has the following configuration.

configuration

Upgrade SharePoint 2010 solution to SharePoint 2013

Use the following procedure to upgrade the solution:

  1. The first step is to move the complete solution from the SharePoint 2010 environment to a 2013 environment.

  2. Open the solution in Visual Studio 2013.

  3. You will be getting the following dialog message, click on the Yes button.

    dialog message

  4. Next a security warning dialog will open up, click on the Ok button.

    security warning dialog

  5. The project will be loaded as shown below.

    Project will be loaded

    preparing solution

  6. Once the project is loaded, all the necessary changes to the project files are upgraded automatically and a migration report is generated as shown below.

    migration report

  7. All the references are mapped to the SharePoint 2013 version automatically as shown below.

    references

    SharePoint 2013 version

  8. Now we are all set to deploy the solution. Right-click on the solution and then click on Deploy.

  9. The solution is deployed successfully in the SharePoint 2013 site.

Summary

Thus in this article you have seen how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 Farm solution to 2013 using Visual Studio 2013.