Install .Net Framework 4.5 Targeting Pack

Question

please help.

I have installed quite a lot of framework and development pack. as you can see in the image.

unfortunately I want to access an ancient project. this project runs on .net framwork 4.5, and must not be upgraded.

I have visual studio 22 installed, but whenever i open the solution, i get the following error as seem in the image bellow.

At the moment I have succeeded in installing the target park for 4.5.2 but it is not helping.

I have tried to install the .net framework 4.5 runtime, but i get the error bellow.

Please help

Answer 1

Look @ article - https://www.gnostice.com/docs/docstudio_net/guide/_faq_buildinganddeployment_vs2022_and_netframework45.html

Total 3 solutions:

Option 1: Install Visual Studio 2019. This will enable support for building even in Visual Studio 2022.

Option 2: Download the Windows 8 SDK from here and when installing it choose the option to install .NET Framework 4.5.

Option 3: Follow the steps below to manually copy over the targeting pack to your machine.

1. Download Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies.net45 from NuGet

2. Open the package as a zip file

3. Copy the files from build\.NETFramework\v4.5 folder to Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5