Figure 2-2
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This button displays a small context menu that lets you select which version of the .NET Framework you
want to create your projects with, as shown in Figure 2-3. How cool is that! As you know, it is possible
to have multiple versions of the .NET Framework on your computer, and because different functionality
is provided within Visual Studio per the version of the .NET Framework, Microsoft decided it would be
extremely helpful to provide a single environment with which to create your applications.
Figure 2-3
Visual Studio 2008 targets .NET 2.0 and later, which means that you won??™t have to open an instance
of Visual Studio 2005 to work with Visual Studio 2005 projects and another instance of Visual Studio
2008 to work with Visual Studio 2008 projects. You can use Visual Studio 2008 to work with both.
To work with .NET 1.1 applications, you will still need to use Visual Studio 2003, since it was targeted
for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework.
What is really nice about Visual Studio 2008 is that the appropriate templates change based on the version
of the .
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