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JimDel
JimDel

Reputation: 4359

Do I need Visual Studio 2012 to write .NET 4.5 Applications?

Do I need Visual Studio 2012 to write .NET 4.5 Applications? Ive seen some confusing info regarding this so I'm hoping for a simple answer.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 581

Answers (1)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500415

Strictly speaking? No. You could always use the command line compiler, or create project files and run MSBuild directly.

Realistically? Yup.

In particular, if your question is really "Can I use C# 5 and target .NET 4.5 from Visual Studio 2010?", the answer is basically no. Obviously there were the CTPs around C# 5 which integrated with VS2010, but they definitely had bugs in around async, and you really shouldn't be using them.

Upvotes: 9

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