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What does the number on the visual studio solution icon represent?

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Just out of curiosity - what does the number represent? At first I thought it was simply the version/year, because I saw some 10's and some 8's (I have vs 2010 and 2008) but, then why do I have some 9's aswell?

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The numbers correspond to the internal version numbers of various editions of Visual Studio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#History The number on the icon indicates the version that the project or solution is compatible with.

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