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Visual Studio 2022

Building a project that target .NET Framework 4.5 in Visual Studio 2022

I maintain a few libraries that still target .NET Framework 4.5 (among others). .NET 4.5 has long been out of support, but I try to keep supporting older frameworks in my libraries as long as it’s not a major inconvenience, because many people maintain old applications that can’t easily be updated to a newer framework. Anyway, until recently, supporting .NET 4.5 wasn’t much of a problem, but today I hit a snag… Before installing VS 2022 on my Surface Pro, I removed VS 2019 and old versions of .