Visual Studio 2008 support for new .NET 4

Question

Will Visual Studio 2008 be supported by new .NET 4 from the get go?

I\'m particularly interested in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and the parallel task

Answer 1

No. VS2008 will not be able to target .NET 4.0:

Visual Studio 2010 supports .NET 4 and earlier projects. Visual Studio 2008 supports .NET 3.5SP1 projects.

Hope this helps,
Polita Paulus
Developer Division
Microsoft

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