Visual Studio 2002 and .NET Framework 1.0???

[samantha]

According to the help file of Visual Studio 2003...

"Visual Studio .NET 2002 shipped with version 1.0 of the Microsoft .NET
Framework SDK; Visual Studio .NET 2003 shipped with version 1.1. If you have
both versions of the .NET Framework installed, Visual Studio .NET 2003 allows
you to choose which version your projects support. Visual Basic, Visual C#, and
Visual J# projects use a new property, Supported Runtimes. Visual C++ provides a
way to manually specify runtime support."

But, for users who ONLY have VS2002, can they just download and install the .NET
Framework and SDK 1.1 and compile to 1.1 using VS2002? Or am I required to buy
VS2003?

TIA
-samantha

 

[samantha]

According to the help file of Visual Studio 2003...

"Visual Studio .NET 2002 shipped with version 1.0 of the Microsoft .NET
Framework SDK; Visual Studio .NET 2003 shipped with version 1.1. If you have
both versions of the .NET Framework installed, Visual Studio .NET 2003 allows
you to choose which version your projects support. Visual Basic, Visual C#, and
Visual J# projects use a new property, Supported Runtimes. Visual C++ provides a
way to manually specify runtime support."

But, for users who ONLY have VS2002, can they just download and install the .NET
Framework and SDK 1.1 and compile to 1.1 using VS2002? Or am I required to buy
VS2003?

TIA
-samantha

 

[Kyle Alons]

If you want target .NET 1.1 w/ VS.NET, you need to use VS.NET 2003. I think
you can still get it cheap until the end of September:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/upgrade/vstudio03/default.aspx

 

[samantha]

Is there a reason why this is true? Are there special hooks between the two?

I thought the framework was designed to be independent of any development
environment. For example, I already can develop applications using the .NET
Framework, either 1.0 or 1.1, as long as I have the respective .NET SDK
installed as well. I wouldnt need any version of VS.NET and I could even use
Notepad. Granted, this would be a very, very challenging way to develop apps,
no Intellisense, etc.

But, this would seemingly mean that every time MS came out with new framework
version (a non-Service Pack version), a new IDE would be required?

-samantha.

 

[Bret Mulvey]

You don't need a new IDE when a new framework version comes out. I've
developed with VS.NET 2002 against .NET 1.0, and the apps run correctly
under .NET 1.1. There are some apps that won't because of
backward-incompatibility in some specific areas of the framework, so you do
need to test under .NET 1.1.