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.NET 
Last week during the devlab at the Microsoft campus we got a nice insight that there is an open source initiative out there that enables us to work with Visual Studio 2005 and still target the “old” platform. This is really great; because one of the big problems for current .Net developers to migrate to the new platform is that they would need to upgrade their entire code base. With all the changes in the platform and the obsolete marked methods they will encounter this is many times not feasible at all. Without this wonderful solution would be stuck with the tools they have today.
Because Visual Studio 2005 compiles everything using the new MSBuild environment it is now possible to switch the target files so they would compile against the old environment. Have a look at the following location and start using Visual Studio 2005 on your current code base!
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Hi,
I’ve tried clicking on the “following location” link to find out more information on how “Developing .NET 1.0 and 1.1 applications using visual studio 2005!” can be done – but was unable to find the article. Can you please point me into the right direction in order to find out a way of developing previous .Net application using VS2005?
Thanks
Felicia
Felicia
Felicia,
I updated the link, so now it points to the site I wanted to refer to again.
You also can take a look at codeplex, where you can find the MSBEE toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/MSBee) . This also allows you to compile 2005 projects in .NET 1.1
be aware that there is in some cases a catch 22. When you want e.g. to develop .NET 1.1 Windows applications, you need to convert the project to 2005 format. This will make the application use partial classes and those are not supported in 1.1 🙁 So it will work for most of your stuff but not in all cases.
Hope this helps you on your way,
Regards
Marcel
marcelv