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John Rivard's .NET Blog : Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework

In juggling priorities, costs, and benefits for Whidbey, the Visual Studio team determined it would be better to continue with a side-by-side toolset strategy than to delve the depths of cross-targeting from a single tool. We have therefore put effort into ensuring that Visual Studio 7.0, 7.1, and 8.0 can be installed side-by-side on the same development machine and can target side-by-side versions of the .NET Framework.

Of course, I discover this particular tidbit AFTER I have already uninstalled Visual Studio.NET 2003 and loaded VS.NET 2005.   That wouldn’t be such a problem but for the fact that I need to target .NET 1.1 for some stuff, and can easily target 2.0 for other stuff.  Now I guess I’ll have to re-install VS.NET 2003.

Phooey.