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Phil Jollans
Phil Jollans

Reputation: 3759

NET Framework Version compatibility for Visual Studio Package

I have a visual studio package which currently targets .NET Framework version 4.5 and works with Visual Studio versions from 2012 up to 2019.

If I upgrade to .NET Framework 4.7.2, what does this mean for compatibility with different versions of Visual Studio?

Will it automatically make the package incompatible with older versions of Visual Studio (e.g. 2012, 2013 and 2015)?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2862

Answers (2)

Maxim Kamalov
Maxim Kamalov

Reputation: 765

An answer for those who doesn't need compatibility deeper than 2017

(But still ended up here from a search engine.)

Check system requirements.

For example, Visual Studio 2017 Product Family System Requirements says that:

Visual Studio requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 to run, and this will be installed during setup.

This means that we can be 100% sure that it's safe to target 4.7.2 when targeting VS 2017.

P.S.: The reason I limit backward compatibility to 2017 is I don't see any mentions of .NET framework in the system requirements of older versions, so this method won't help with targeting older versions.

Upvotes: 0

Mehdi Jannati
Mehdi Jannati

Reputation: 110

if you install a specific version of .net framework you can see that in your target framework. you can use this address to see all the .net SDK for visual studio

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/visual-studio-sdks?utm_source=getdotnetsdk&utm_medium=referral you must attention, if you want to using .NetCore in your project you must have a newer version of Visual Studio like 2017 or 2019.

Upvotes: 2

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