Hello gracious and knowledgable C# professionals.
I have a question about the .net framework and VS2005. I would like to install the SqlServer 2008 client tools on my machine and they require .net framework 3.5. At the same time I will be doing some novice development against the .net 2.0 framework. My question is: if I upgrade to .net 3.5 and create a new Visual C# project in VS2005, is there a way to specify the framework version assemblies that the project will use? In other words, how do I force VS2005 to ignore the .net 3.5 framework?
Thanks a bunch.
AlanPosted Aug 21, 2008, 11:12 AM
JasonPosted Aug 21, 2008, 9:56 AM
That's good news. Many thanks.
On a side note, one should be able to create references to dlls in 3.5 as long as they were compiled with the 2.0 compiler right? I don't anticipate having to do so, but I thought I'd ask.
Thanks again.
AlanPosted Aug 20, 2008, 6:39 PM
Visual Studio 2005 will automatically use .NET 2.0 - it can't use .NET 3.5.
Visual Studio 2008 will automatically use .NET 3.5 - though it can be configured to target versions 2.0 or 3.0 instead.
Both versions of VS and all versions of the framework can happily co-exist on the same system. So, in other words, you don't have a problem :)