Criteria of Visual Studio to change target framework of a project

Question

I have to shift an old project (developed in visual studio 2005 .net framework 2.0) to DevOps. For that purpose I have opened that project in VS2019. Project converted and built successfully, but I noticed that target framework of project is showing as 4. After some research I read this (link is also given below)

visual-studio-multi-targeting-overview

I want to know that on which criteria VS decided to update or change target framework of that project. As .Net framework 2.0 is also supported in VS2019 and I don't want to change / update target framework.

Really appreciate your quick replies.

Answer 1

Hi @Shabbir Hussain ,

As .Net framework 2.0 is also supported in VS2019 and I don't want to change / update target framework.

If you update your .NET Framework to 4.x, you will get more support for new features and new project types.
See: .NET Framework versions and dependencies

So consider using your project in the new .NET Framework version.

Besides, if you want to know more details of the document, you can post the feedback of this page.

Hope it could be helpful.

Best Regards,
Xingyu Zhao
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