Is it possible to compile .NET 1.1 in Visual Studio 2008?
I have an ASP.NET 1.1 site and was recently updated to Visual Studio 2008. It looks like after compiling my projects to DLLs that they are not working and from what I put together it seems like VS2k8 cannot target on .NET 1.1. I still have Visual Studio 2003, so I can compile my projects with this, but I'm wondering if there is a way to compile them in Visual Studio 2008.
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No, the minimum you can target is .NET 2.0. Why not just upgrade the project to .NET 2.0, or better yet 3.5?
the change in ViewState alone (not to mention other benefits) is one of the reasons for this.
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No, you can only target .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 (look at your project properties).
This will also hold true for VS 2010 (adding .NET 4.0 to the list of course) as described by Scott Guthrie .
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Yes, there is, but it's a hack. There is a blog article here on how to do this with the VS2005 beta here - http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2005/04/22/410903.aspx You might be able to adapt this to work with VS2008.
My recommendation, however, would be to use VS2003 or .Net 2.0.
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There's a line:
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v3.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
in the csproj file.
I would not recommend it, but you can try setting it to v1.1. However, I suspect this will cause more problems than it will solve.
I would go with RichardOD's suggestion and either bit the bullet or update or find the Visual Studio 2005 version.
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