vs 2008 and .NET 4

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Can i develope .net 4 application with vs 2008?

You could develop .NET 4 applications with NotePad if you wanted. You just have to compile by hand... — Justin Niessner, Nov 12 '10 at 18:48

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:48

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No. You need VS 2010.

answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:48

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:50

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No, but you can download visual studio express which is free. That will allow you to create .Net 4.0 applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:47

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No, you can not.

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:50

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.NET Framework 4 is quite different from previous versions, and VS2008 doesn't support this. At least for now you have to use VS2010 to target .NET Framework 4.

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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This has been asked before, see:

Can I (and how do I) target .net 4 with vs 2008?

So it appears you cannot. .NET 4 definitely had a beta, and I was thinking that was available for VS2008, but I guess I was mistaken and it was only available with the VS2010 beta.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Nov 12 '10 at 18:50

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vs 2008 and .NET 4

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