Question

This article describes selecting it for .NET 3.5 under VS2008.
How does one select the .NET 4.0 Client profile for C++/CLI under VS2010?

Answer 1

After experimenting with a C# project, I found that manually adding a TargetFrameworkProfile node to the vcxproj file seems to do the trick.

Procedure:
1) Using a plaintext editor, open the vcxproj
2) Find the PropertyGroup node
3) Find the TargetFrameworkVersion node under PropertyGroup
4) Add a TargetFrameworkProfile node as shown in this snippet:

<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
   ...
   <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>   
   <TargetFrameworkProfile>Client</TargetFrameworkProfile>
   ...

After saving the vcxproj file and reloading the project inside Visual Studio, open the project’s Properties and select Common Properties. The Targeted framwework will now display “Profile=Client”