Use MSBuild 3.5 with Visual Studio 2010

Question

How can I force Visual Studio 2010 to use MSBuild 3.5 instead of the new 4.0 ?

Answer 1

You can target different versions of runtime from the project properties dialog:

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Not sure if modifying the build rules to use MsBuild 3.5 for C#/VB.NET targets is a good idea.

(The below change is unnecessary. Using .NET 4 targets file has no problem at all.) Edit Try to open the c# project with a text editor and modify this line:

to this: