Visual Studio 2012 - Setting the target framework in C++ Projects
- by Igor Milovanovic
The Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t have a UI to set the Target Framework in C++ Projects. Target Framework : 4.0 The online documentation does say to edit the .vcxproj project and change the TargetFrameworkVersion Tag. However, The C++ projects don’t have that tag by default. They just assume that the target framework is v4.0. Instead, you have to add the TargetFrameworkVersion-Tag to the PropertyGroup Globals. 1: <PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
2: ...
3: <RootNamespace>...</RootNamespace>
4: <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
5: </PropertyGroup>
When you reload the project, the target framework version in your project will be changed.
Target Framework : 4.5
[1] How to: Modify the Target Framework and Platform Toolset http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770576.aspx
