version-compatibility

OS Compatibility for various .NET Framework versions

What are the minimum OS requirements for each of the .Net frameworks? E.g. for which version is it impossible to run each OS on: Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 98SE Windows ME Windows NT 3.x Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 I believe all .Net frameworks are compatible w/ XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 (please correc...

Can I write an app in the new version of Visual Studio and make it compatible with .NET Framework 1.1

I am a Web developer who spends 99% of his time in Linux, but I need to develop a super simple application with VB or possibly C# (.Net). The only version of Visual Studio I have is the most current free ones. There MIGHT be a copy of 2001 lying around somewhere. Anyways, the machine I need to develop this for is running Windows NT4. ...

Loading a .NET 3.5 assembly via reflection in .NET 2.0

I have an interesting situation and am trying to do something that I'm not even sure is possible. I have a .NET 2.0 project that via reflection loads an assembly, and calls a specific method on that assembly. We are looking at moving forward and starting to use .NET 3.5 in the environment, but want to minimize risk with regard to this ...

How to check the compatibility between my program and the .NET Framework versions?

Hi all I am writing a program which is targeted to run on .net framework 2.0. I have chosen 2.0 in my VS project. It runs fine on my machine (mine has 2.0 SP2), so there is no compile error. but when I tried to run it on another machine (only with 2.0, no sp), it cannot run. I am aware that I used some method which is supported by 2...

Viewing ACCDB with Access 2010 runtime when Access 2007 is installed

I'm hoping someone can either tell me what I'm doing wrong correct my flawed understanding of how this works and explain why it's not possible. I've been developing a fairly basic database/program for a client in Access. They have Office 2007, I have Office 2010. Initial test of creating a database in 2010 (in "2007" format) and opening...

GetProperty works in .NET 3.5 but not in .NET 4

I use following code: protected object GetProperty(object target, string fieldName) { Type type = target.GetType(); PropertyInfo mi = type.GetProperty( fieldName, BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.GetProperty); object obj = mi.GetValue(target, null); return obj; } It works in .NET 3....