I have a dll that I wrote in Visual Studio 2005 and would like to add it to
one of our older apps (CLR 1.1).
Can I do it? The machine has the .NET Framework 2.0 installed and the dll
doesn't do anything special. It doesn't utilize Generics or anything..
Just a lot of business logic code I don't want to re-write.

While I'm sure I could paste this in Visual Studio 2003 and compile it, it
would be nice if I didn't have to do that for every change and I could just
use the same dll across apps.

Any suggestions?

Hi

no, the assembly file format changed in 2.0,
thus the 1.1 runtime (nor VS 2003) can't read 2.0 assemblies.



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Hi proport,

I agree with Thomas, that the assembly file format changed in 2.0. It is
not forward compatibly, and you even cannot add reference to a .NET 2.0
class library in VS.NET 2003.

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"preport" <preport (AT) newsgroups (DOT) nospam> wrote

Develop it only in VS2003. Then you can use it with both 1.1 and 2.0
frameworks.

SP

SP <ecneserpegats (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
You'll need to test it on both, however. There are some subtle changes
to behaviour in 2.0, not all of which are documented.

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Some subtle and some not so subtle changes. Hard crashes of .Net 1.1 apps
when 2.0 is present ain't subtle.... ;-)

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