VS.NET 2k5 - compile to .NET 1.1? 1

[Mongr1l]

can VS.NET 2k5 build on the .Net 1.1 platform?

- mongril

 

[TipGiver]

Installing the 2005 edition (express or not), the .NET framework 2.0 will be installed. It is your choice if you will develop under the 1.1. So yes.

 

[Mongr1l]

Well, I'm trying to find where it gives you that option.

Under the VS.NET 2k3, all I had to do is go to project configurations and it gave that option. You could choose either 1.0 or 1.1 as the platform to compile it

However, under VS 2k5, nowhere do I find that option.

Anyway, this may be moot because what I'm trying to do is use nDoc to document the project.


It maybe that nDoc will not recognize the upgraded version of the project, since 2k5 upgrades it automatically. It doesn't give you a choice.


Thoughts?

- mongril

 

[kettch]

To my knowledge you can not build 1.1 projects with 2005. You don't even need 1.1 installed for vs2k5 to work.

The backwards compatability was in 2003 because 1.1 was a minor release of the framework. For the most part 1.1 apps should run under 2.0, but there are no guarantees.

VS2k5 was built specifically for 2.0 and cannot address 1.1 application development. You can import 1.1 assemblies as references to your project, but that's it.

 

[Mongr1l]

That's the verification I was looking for. I sorta figured as much after piddling with it for an hour to see if I could compile my program to 1.1... to no avail

Therefore, I just told my boss, for the sake of speedy documentation, to let me install VS 2k3 so that I could use nDoc.

Thanks, kettch. I don't feel like such an idiot now.


Cheers!!

- mongril