What’s New in Visual Studio 2008?
- Multi-Targeting Support
- New HTML Designer an

Multi-Targeting Support
- Visual Studio 2008 supports targeting multiple versions of the .NET Framework
- Choose which Framework version to target when opening or creating an application
– .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
- Visual Studio IDE only shows features appropriate for your selected target version
– Toolbox/Add New Item/Add Reference/IntelliSense
- Open 2.0 project in Visual Studio 2008?
– Dialog offers option to upgrade, or leave it alone

Using Multi-Targeting
- Before now, VS mapped to particular version of the framework
- If you wanted to use VS 2005, had to update sites to use ASP.NET 2.0 and .NET Framework 2.0
- Can you use Visual Studio 2008 with ASP.NET 2.0 apps?
– Yes: can choose which version of the framework to use
- Can both upgrade and downgrade site

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