Using .NET 2.0 from VS2003 editor ?

[N a v a n e e t h]

I have .NET framework 2.0 installed on my machine. But I don't have VS2005. I am using VS2003. Is there anyway to access the .NET 2.0 libraries using VS2003 ?

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[pmarfleet]

AKAIK, you can only write code against v1.1 of the framework in VS2003. You need to either upgrade to VS2005, or use a 3rd party IDE like SharpDevelop.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

Thanks. So what about .NET 3.0 ? If I have VS2005 installed, can I use .NET 3.0 classes ? I guess we can

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[duncanmhor]

Yes, you can use dot net 3 in VS2005, but not in VS2003.

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[pmarfleet]

This link[^] explains how to update VS2005 to access .NET 3.0 functionality. I believe that in VS2008, it will be possible to build your code against a specific version of the framework.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

Thanks for the information paul.

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[originSH]

pmarfleet wrote:

I believe that in VS2008, it will be possible to build your code against a specific version of the framework.

Your right but it's limited to 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5, you wont be able to do 1.0 or 1.1.

[Daniel Grunwald]

You can compile for .NET 1.0 and 1.1 in both VS2005 and VS2008, you just have to write the appropriate MSBuild targets (or download them, e.g. from here[^]).