Visual Studio 2005 Question regarding Multi Framework support.

[RedEye]

I heard somewhere that you can use the Visual Studio 2005 IDE to continue
work on VS2003 applications.

The reason for my question is I am rebuilding my machine this week and I
want to know if in need to install both VS2003 and VS2005 IDE's.

Thanks,
Red

 

[CT]

If you use VS 2005 to build your apps, then you need the .NET Framework 2.0
installed on the target machines. I have both versions of VS installed here,
albeit in different VPCs. However, there are no problems having both
installed on the same PC. Well, that is not quite through, because there's
the issue of which file extension is opened with which application. Install
VS 2003 .NET first, and then VS 2005. That ought to fix it.

 

[Bajoo]

Yes it is possible.But If you are developing Web Application
you have to change the version of CLR for each new Web application as
your IIS will set the latest CLR version by default. you can change the
CLR version from properties -> Configuration -> edit for each Page
type.

Naveed Ahmad Bajwa
Kalsoft Pvt Ltd

 

[CT]

Naveed,

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that you can target the 1.x
Framework in VS 2005, right? If so, can you tell me how, please?

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

The 2.0 Framework is designed to run 1.1 applications without recompile, but
there has never been any promise of being able to develop 1.1 apps in VS
2005.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

I think he is saying you can target multiple frameworks on the machine, not
in Visual Studio 2005. You have the option, via aspnet_regiis, to set each
site to a different version (if you have different versions installed, that
is).

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Daniel Moth]

If you are targeting Compact Framework applications for WM2003 or CE 5.0,
then all you need is VS2005. For full framework applications you need both
IDEs for development.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Helge Lenuweit]

The backend build system of VS2005 is MSBuild which is a sophisticated
framework for batch compilation and lots of related tasks. Project and
solution definitions that ship with Visual Studio 2005 are tied to the
2.0 framework, but you can modify it with custom build files. I have
tried it a while back and it worked, but you will run into problems when
you have dependencies that are of the wrong runtime etc.

See the following article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2005/04/22/410903.aspx

Regards,
Helge

 

[CT]

Hey Greg,

Yes, that's what I was thinking, but I wanted it "straightened out" so no
one misinterprets it.

 

[Bajoo]

CT,
What I meant to say was that every new Web project that you start
will be configured for V2.0 by IIS (doesn't matter that you created
it from VS 2003 or 2005) so if you have to create web projects for V1.1
you have to change the configuration yourself.

I hope it helps
Regards,
Naveed Ahmad Bajwa