About Cartridge Project Upgrades

When legacy cartridge projects, developed using earlier Design Studio versions, are imported into Design Studio or when the workbench is loaded, the projects are upgraded to the new project format. The new project format is incompatible with earlier Design Studio for Activation versions. The conversion is one-way using the Design Studio Platform's Project Upgrade wizard. See Design Studio Installation Guide for more information.

Design Studio's project upgrade logic is responsible for identifying and orchestrating the conversion of interdependent projects. Where several projects with interdependencies need to be converted, the Design Studio Platform upgrade logic performs the conversion in a correct order. For example, an SRT project that depends on an Activation Service project, which depends on an Activation Network project, will first convert the Activation Network project, then the Activation Service project then the SRT project.