How can Resharper be made aware of the framework version?

Question

I am coding in VS2008 with Resharper 4.5.1, but the projects are set to target .NET Framework 2.0.

Still, Resharper is making suggestions that are relevant to the .NET 3.5 framework. For instance, it tells me that I should be using collection initializers, etc...

I've looked through the settings and can't seem to find the checkbox to tell it to give 2.0 specific advice.

Answer 1

Those features are not .NET 3.5 framework features, but merely features of the 3.5 compiler. And since in VS2008 this is the compiler invoked for .NET 2 targets, it does handle these syntax extensions correctly.

Answer 2

Select your project in the Solution Explorer and open the Properties tool window (F4 in the standard keyboard layout). In the ReSharper section, there is a Language Level property that you can set to C# 2.0.

As others have said, this affects the version of C#, not the version of the framework (since most of the C# 3.0 changes can be compiled to an assembly that targets .NET 2.0).

Answer 3

Thanks for this - Had to completely redo a program for an old NET2.0 win2K server - R# was driving me nuts, and I kept forgetting and making the Net 3.5 changes!

Barry