We have covered the topic about various Versions of AutoCAD, .NET Framework Runtime, and Visual Studio.
So we know that a specific AutoCAD targets a specific .NET Framework Runtime and a specific Visual Studio supports one or a few .NET Framework Runtime versions. So there is a development tool choosing and .NET Framework Runtime targeting matter if AutoCAD .NET addin projects are created manually from scratch.
In case it is still necessary to do so, the table that the article offers makes the matter clear as crystal in terms of which Visual Studio had better be used for which AutoCAD and which particular .NET Framework Runtime version should be targeted at.
If the leading edge AutoCAD .NET Addin Wizard (AcadNetAddinWizard) is used to create AutoCAD .NET addin projects, these will not be matters at all. AcadNetAddinWizard intelligently knows the version of AutoCAD you are going to work with and automatically targets to the right .NET Framework Runtime for its .NET API. That explains why we did not mention it at all which .NET Framework to choose in the New Project UI like the following:
when demonstrating how to Create AutoCAD .NET C# Addin in Visual Studio 2008 Using AcadNetAddinWizard and how to Create AutoCAD VB.NET Addin in Visual Studio 2008 Using AcadNetAddinWizard.
Though the .NET Framework is targeted properly and automatically by the AutoCAD .NET Addin Wizard, nothing really prevents us from switching the runtime from one version to another such that some new functionalities like LINQ and WPF need to be used and the verification has been done that the particular AutoCAD really accepts it. The general idea is that if the underlying CLR is still in the same major version, things should be just fine, so choosing a higher runtime in this situation seems feasible, but nobody can guarantee future as we know. So readers can go ahead at their own risk to do so, but the general tool, AutoCAD .NET Addin Wizard (AcadNetAddinWizard), only chooses to do things deemed right.
The leading edge AutoCAD .NET Addin Wizard (AcadNetAddinWizard) is A Wizard for AutoCAD .NET Addin Development and can be found here.
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