{"id":6883,"date":"2005-11-30T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2005\/11\/30\/explanation-of-cross-targeting-in-visual-studio\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:53:09","slug":"explanation-of-cross-targeting-in-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/explanation-of-cross-targeting-in-visual-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation of cross-targeting in Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p><span><font size=\"1\">By Amanda Silver<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnri\/\">John Rivard<\/a>, one of the two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panopticoncentral.net\/\">tech leads<\/a> on&nbsp;the Visual Basic team, has entered the blogosphere! &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnri\/archive\/2005\/11\/29\/498219.aspx\">first post<\/a> is a doosey &ndash; it explains <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnri\/archive\/2005\/11\/29\/498219.aspx\">why Visual Studio 8.0 doesn&rsquo;t cross target<\/a> (let you target version 1.0 and 1.1 of the CLR <i>and<\/i> version 2.0.) However, given your feedback that you&rsquo;d like to take advantage of features in the new toolset without having to target the newest CLR, we&rsquo;re going to be seriously tackling the cross-targeting problem. One of the things that would help us a lot is for you to <strong><em>tell us about your requirements<\/em><\/strong> for cross-targeting. Is it simply that you want to be able to E&amp;C but write apps for 1.1? Let us know. <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amanda Silver John Rivard, one of the two tech leads on&nbsp;the Visual Basic team, has entered the blogosphere! &nbsp; His first post is a doosey &ndash; it explains why Visual Studio 8.0 doesn&rsquo;t cross target (let you target version 1.0 and 1.1 of the CLR and version 2.0.) However, given your feedback that you&rsquo;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,195],"tags":[28,81,165],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-visual-basic","tag-amanda-silver","tag-john-rivard","tag-vb2005"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>By Amanda Silver John Rivard, one of the two tech leads on&nbsp;the Visual Basic team, has entered the blogosphere! &nbsp; His first post is a doosey &ndash; it explains why Visual Studio 8.0 doesn&rsquo;t cross target (let you target version 1.0 and 1.1 of the CLR and version 2.0.) However, given your feedback that you&rsquo;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}