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Visual Studio 2005 Build Compatibility

I just successfully made VS2005 compile an application to all versions of the .NET Framework. In the next few days, I'll be cleaning up this process, and building an installer for the required files. I'll detail everything here shortly. But it IS possible with a couple miniutes worth of work, which should be great news for control vendors and others who want to save a bunch of time.
Posted: Oct 02 2004, 10:04 PM by interscape | with 5 comment(s)
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David said:

Also have a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2004/10/01/236879.aspx, where the steps necessary to accomplish this for C# and .Net 1.1 from within VS2005 were outlined a couple of days ago.
# October 3, 2004 6:27 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Yeah David, that's where I started from. But his implementation was flawed in several ways, and it only had support for 1.1. As soon as I've finished building the installer, I'll blog about what was wrong, and how I significantly improved it.
# October 3, 2004 6:38 AM

David said:

Cool! Looking forward to it :)
# October 3, 2004 10:00 AM

matthew said:

sounds good, but I thought that there were so many things with vs2005, such as partial classes, new controls, etc., that there's no point in upgrading to vs2005 unless you use these things, which would mean that the app wouldn't work under old versions of .net anyway?
# October 3, 2004 6:52 PM

Robert McLaws said:

Again, the point is to make it easy for people who have to be able to support multiple versions of the .NET Framework individually.

If it helps other people out, great. I needed it for my own development, and I decided to make it available to others. If you go look at the post, you seel it demonstrates a lot more than just how to add compilation extras to VS projects.
# October 4, 2004 2:35 AM