Do I need Visual Studio 2012 to write .NET 4.5 Applications? Ive seen some confusing info regarding this so I’m hoping for a simple answer.
Thanks.
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Do I need Visual Studio 2012 to write .NET 4.5 Applications? Ive seen some confusing info regarding this so I’m hoping for a simple answer.
Thanks.
Strictly speaking? No. You could always use the command line compiler, or create project files and run MSBuild directly.
Realistically? Yup.
In particular, if your question is really “Can I use C# 5 and target .NET 4.5 from Visual Studio 2010?”, the answer is basically no. Obviously there were the CTPs around C# 5 which integrated with VS2010, but they definitely had bugs in around async, and you really shouldn’t be using them.