Can visual studio work with a newer .Net Framework version?

[KaKa]

Hi, Can a version of Visual Studio.Net be used with a .Net Framework which is newer? e.g Can Visual Studio 2003 work on .Net Framework 2.0 ? or Visual Studio 2005 on the newer version of .Net ?

[Yuvi Panda]

No. It can't. You can't use VS 2005 to target .NET 1.x, and vice versa. Yuvi Panda T Microsoft Student Partner Blogs at : http://yuvipanda.blogspot.com

[Steve Pullan]

Yes, and No... VS 2003 cannot target .NET 2.0 but any apps you create with VS 2003 and .NET 1.1 should run ok if run on a .NET 2.0 system (the .NET frameworks are backward compatible). You just won't get the advantage of any new features in the later framework. VS 2005 targets .NET 2.0 as a minimum, so you can't generally target .NET 1.1 or earlier (yes I know - strictly speaking there are ways around this but unless you have a VERY good reason it just ain't worth the headaches). ...Steve 1. quod erat demonstrandum 2. "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him for life." I read that somewhere once :-)

[Bhanwar Gupta]

yes, i have tried it and vs.net 2003 is working with framework 2.0

[KaKa]

Hi Gupta, So when u try vs.net 2003 with framework 2.0, can it still work smoothly and utilize the new features of version 2.0? Is it just a matter of removing version 1.1 and installing version 2.0 in its place? Because from almost all the replies, vs.net 2003 is unable to target .net framework 2.0