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Honanin
Honanin

Reputation: 191

Migrating from .NET 3.5 to 4.5.1 in Visual Studio 2013

I'm currently in the process of trying to migrate a project from .NET 3.5 to 4.5.1 using Visual Studio 2013. Every piece of documentation I've been able to find says that when you open a project with an outdated framework a wizard will pop up offering to migrate your project, however I have been unable to get that wizard. The obvious thing would be to manually change the target framework, however we have quite a large multi-solution project so this would not be ideal. Is there a way to explicitly invoke this tool?

edit for more info:

This is the wizard I was referring to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd483478.aspx

It does not just switch the target framework, it also updates references in the Web.config as well. Like I said, this is a very large project and I have no interest in doing this manually. I end up getting a lot (A LOT) of missing references when I try to do this manually.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8354

Answers (2)

Cj S.
Cj S.

Reputation: 1193

I believe the wizard you're referring is the Project Upgrade Wizard and it's involved in upgrading the solution/projects (nothing to do with the target framework version).

To target a new framework, simply select a new framework version from the property pages.

Upvotes: 1

Scott Chamberlain
Scott Chamberlain

Reputation: 127603

Visual Studio 2013 is Round Trip compatible with 2012 and 2010 so there is no tool to run (if you are running a .csproj file).

The act of changing the framework version from 3.5 to 4.5.1 is the conversion process.

Upvotes: 5

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