Visual Studio 2008 and Visual studio 2005

Question

I am developing a Windows Application using the .net Framework 2.0 and Visual C#(Microsoft Visual Studio 2008) in my PC.

On the completion of my project I have to execute it in a system which has Visual Studio 2005 and .net framework 2.0.

So my doubt is if I develop an application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 will I be able to execute it in Visual Studio 2005 properly? Is it possible?

Please help me!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

• Create the project in Visual Studio 2005
• Save a copy of it somewhere
• Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008, do your development work.
• Drop your finished project back into your original Visual Studio 2005 project and compile
• There should be minimal differences in the code so long as you don't use any .NET 3.5 features.

Note: So long as you use .NET 2.0 features only, the project will run just fine on the Visual Studio 2005 machine