Question

I’m planning on releasing an open source (MIT) .NET library, but also including DLLs to make it easy for people so they don’t have to compile everything themselves.

My library is very simplistic in the types it references, the only real dependency seems to be .NET 3.0 or higher (since it refers to Func<T> and the like).

I want my library to be usable by multiple targets, including .NET 4.0 server, .NET 3.5 server, Windows Phone 7 Silverlight, normal Silverlight, XNA (Phone), XNA (Windows), and XNA (XBox 360).

I make sure to not use any types that are not available on the platforms I’m targeting, e.g. HashSet<T> isn’t available on Windows Phone 7, so I’m not using it.

Will I need to make different projects and thus multiple DLLs for each of these targets or is there some way to produce a common DLL for them all to use?

Answer 1

There was a talk at PDC this year about doing this sort of stuff:

This is the video and these are the slides.