Oct 20, 2017 09:56 AM
(This post was last modified: Oct 20, 2017 10:29 AM by gigajew.)
Are you wondering which .NET Framework version you should target? What audience do you want to target? Where what why? .NET Framework 2.0 used to be a good target for wide support and compability. But times have changed, and we must change with them.
According to Wikipedia, the CLR version 2.0 stopped being supported as of 2011-07-12, that is 6 years ago, almost 7. which means that if you want to target an audience of modern computer users, this is not the version you want to select.
So what version do we choose? Well, it really depends. A recent version number is 4.0, and is forwards-compatible with any version number above it. So that would be the obvious choice for a wide variety of users. .NET 4.0 is automatically supported in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
The point of this thread is to end the never-ending argument about which version to target.
Take a look at this table:
![[Image: fqC4SEp.png]](https://i.imgur.com/fqC4SEp.png)
According to Wikipedia, the CLR version 2.0 stopped being supported as of 2011-07-12, that is 6 years ago, almost 7. which means that if you want to target an audience of modern computer users, this is not the version you want to select.
So what version do we choose? Well, it really depends. A recent version number is 4.0, and is forwards-compatible with any version number above it. So that would be the obvious choice for a wide variety of users. .NET 4.0 is automatically supported in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
The point of this thread is to end the never-ending argument about which version to target.
Take a look at this table:
![[Image: Syr3DlV.png]](https://i.imgur.com/Syr3DlV.png)