控制面板中的框架转换

Question

I'm using visual studio 2012 and have account in hostgator for web hosting .net. visual studio 2012 uses 4.5 framework and in hostgator parallel panel I tried to change the version of framework in asp.net setting but only version '4.0.30319.34209' and '2.0.50727.5483' is available.I need some tips to which version of visual studio suitable for all hosting domain.

Answer 1

You're confusing the version of .NET with the version of the CLR. It's an easy thing to confuse. Your hosting platform supports two versions of the CLR 4.0 and 2.0.

.NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 run on version 2.0 of the CLR. .NET 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.5.2 will run on version 4.0 of the CLR.

You can use Visual Studio 2012 to create web applications targeting .NET 2.0 - 4.5.x, so you're fine.

If this is a new application, I'd recommend targeting the latest released version of the framework (4.5.2) which will run on CLR 4.0. So in your hostgator set target framework to 4.0. Visual Studio should default to creating a web application in the latest .net version, but you can always check/change via the Properties window for the project.

(Screenshot taken from: Targeted .NET Framework version change )