Explanation of cross-targeting in Visual Studio

VBTeam — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:25:00 GMT

By Amanda Silver

John Rivard, one of the two tech leads on the Visual Basic team, has entered the blogosphere!

His first post is a doosey – it explains why Visual Studio 8.0 doesn’t cross target (let you target version 1.0 and 1.1 of the CLR and version 2.0.) However, given your feedback that you’d like to take advantage of features in the new toolset without having to target the newest CLR, we’re going to be seriously tackling the cross-targeting problem. One of the things that would help us a lot is for you to tell us about your requirements for cross-targeting. Is it simply that you want to be able to E&C but write apps for 1.1? Let us know.

Versioning Guidelines for Whidbey

VBTeam — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:44:00 GMT

Developers in the Bay area! Next week, John Rivard, a tech lead on the Visual Basic team, will be talking about best practices and gotchas when versioning .NET assemblies. Here's the talk abstract:

This presentation addresses the topic of versioning .NET assemblies. By introducing side-by-side assemblies and a side-by-side assembly store, .NET comes with new design and technical challenges for shared assemblies. These guidelines present existing methodologies and specific recommendations for versioning, servicing, and deploying shared assemblies.

Setting and incrementing the assembly and file version numbers
Patterns for creating side-by-side and non-side-by-side types
Global servicing vs. per-application servicing
Deploying shared assemblies to the GAC or to application directories

This is sure to be a good talk. To register, you can go to the Bay.NET user group site at: http://www.baynetug.org/DesktopDefault.aspx

Please attend, ask tough questions, give us tons of feedback, and enjoy!

The Visual Basic Team : John Rivard

Explanation of cross-targeting in Visual Studio

Versioning Guidelines for Whidbey