Raymond Lewallen

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Why can't we build 1.1 apps with VS 2005?

I’ve heard and read a lot of comments over the months about why can’t we build applications for the 1.1 framework using the VS 2005 IDE? Simple. VS 2005 only targets the 2.0 framework. However, it appears as though making the IDE target multiple versions of the framework is something they are taking seriously and working on.

One of the Visual Studio developers, John Rivard, has started blogging as of yesterday, and he starts off wonderfully by explaining Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework. No need for me to elaborate any more on the subject, John does a wonderful job of explaining.

Published Nov 30 2005, 09:21 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development

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Eden Ridgway said:

There is a compatability toolkit that allows you to target .Net 1.1 and 1.0. It's available at: http://www.longhornblogs.com/robert/archive/2005/06/03/14156.aspx

# December 1, 2005 12:17 AM

Jason Haley said:

# December 1, 2005 10:15 PM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)