How to target higher .net framework from visual studio 2003

Question

I am a java developer and know very little about .Net. I am working on project which has some screens built using the .Net FrameWork. Recently, client updated to IE11 and now they are facing some .net exception related to Systems.Windows.Form while right clicking on any page. After some research I realized this is an existing issue with .net 1.1 framework. Can I point to Systems.Windows.Form.dll of some higher version of .net as I have other versions also installed on my system.

Answer 1

The first Visual Studio version to support Multi-Targeting was VS2008. Before then each version of Visual Studio only supported working with the then current version of the .Net Framework.

VS.Net => .Net 1.0

VS2003 => .Net 1.1

VS2005 => .Net 2.0

So you will have to migrate to a newer version of Visual Studio to resolve the issue.

Normally opening an old solution in a new version of Visual Studio will run an upgrade wizzard that in my experience rarely causes issues. However given how old VS2003 is I have no practical experience with how new versions of Visual Studio will handle it.