1

If the project is not using any features from .NET 3.5, how do you downgrade to 2.0?

richard
  • 12,263
  • 23
  • 95
  • 151
  • Is there a good reason since 3.5 runs on the same engine as 2.0 – rerun May 23 '11 at 21:17
  • 1
    @rerun: Absolutely - just because 2.0 is installed doesn't mean that 3.5 is. – Jon Skeet May 23 '11 at 21:18
  • Yeah, I jumped the gun. I thought the client would be happy to upgrade, but the admins aren't too keen on getting it installed on all the computers on the network. Meanwhile, I have done some work and don't feel like copying all that to the backup I have of the 2.0 version. – richard May 23 '11 at 21:18
  • Interestingly enough, it already IS .NET 2.0. When I opened the project in VS 2008 for the first time, it told me it was going to upgrade, so I thought that meant it was upgrading it to .net 3.5, but apparently not. Thanks everyone! – richard May 23 '11 at 21:22

4 Answers4

5

Simply go into the project properties, and under "Application" find the "Target framework" option and set it to 2.0.

Jon Skeet
  • 1,421,763
  • 867
  • 9,128
  • 9,194
2

Go to project properties and select different destination framework on Application tab.

Marco
  • 56,740
  • 14
  • 129
  • 152
0

Solution Explorer->Right-click on the project->Properties->Change runtime version to 2.0

Aliostad
  • 80,612
  • 21
  • 160
  • 208
-1

Open your .vcproj and then change the line to:

TargetFrameworkVersion="131072"

It should do the trick

Msonic
  • 1,456
  • 15
  • 25
Luong Cong Dan
  • 1