R – Is it possible to use MSBuild to build a .NET 1.1 VB project w/ Crystal Reports

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I have a project with Crystal Reports files that doesn't seem to build correctly if I upgrade it to VS 2005 and .NET 2.0. I think the reason is that the new version of Crystal Reports is incompatible with the older report format. Since I am now running Vista, and .NET 2003 doesn't work correctly on Vista, I want to be able to build using MSBuild to target the .NET 1.1 framework. Is this possible?

Best Answer

.NET 1.1 doesn't use MSBuild, but what you CAN do is convert the project to VS 2005, and use something called MSBee to back-target your project to the 1.1 runtime. I've never tried it, but that's probably your best bet.