Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Targeting Your Environment

Many of us work in environments that include applications built on various versions of the .NET Framework. You might be building your new applications on .NET 4.0, but still need to support one or more .NET 2.0 applications. Of course, this becomes even more prevalent as more versions are released. You do not, however, want to have to keep multiple versions of Visual Studio on your machine. Instead, you should be able to target the version of the Framework for which the application is written. This way you can work in a single IDE and take advantage of the latest productivity enhancements.

Visual Studio 2010 supports the ability to target a specific version of the .NET Framework for an application. This means you can ...