Executing Umbraco 4.11.1 source code in visual studio 2010

Question

i have undoubtedly spent many hours to get Umbraco solved ..but no success. What i want...is learning to work with Umbraco 4.11.1 version (i know Umbraco 5 is latest) but have very less knowledge about it. support from Umbraco also seems insufficient.

I want to run Umbraco using visual studio 2010 Professional but no success.. first of all i couldnt find a source code for umbraco which i can understand. i downloaded source code from below link:

http://umbraco.codeplex.com/releases/view/98167

after downloading im getting following folder: .nuget Umbraco.Extensions Umbraco.Site UmbracoProject (Solution file)

but when im trying to open this solution file via visual studio 2010 im getting error : saying Selected File is a solution file but created by a new version of the application.

I couldnot understand why i cant open the source code in visual studio ? Please help me out. any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Your initial question seems to be answered by @DouglasLudlow; but in addition:

Umbraco 5 development was stopped months ago, Umbraco 4.11 is the latest version of Umbraco.

If you have a working Umbraco 4.x build then a good next step would be to watch the free training videos that describe each part of Umbraco. Specifically razor scripts are held in the Scripting Files section of the 'Developer' section of the Umbraco back-office - and in the macroScripts folder of your umbraco project.