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  • Support for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 was added to FTN95 at version 5.00.
  • Support Visual Studio 2008 support was added at version 5.20.
  • Support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 was added at version 6.00
Although '.NET' and Visual Studio are closely related the support for them in FTN95 is separate:

  • You can produce .NET code with FTN95 without using Visual Studio.
  • You can produce and debug Win32 code with or without Visual Studio.

FTN95 can produce code that is .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 compatible (note that .NET 1.1 code is also .NET 2.0 compatible and .NET 2.0 code is also .NET 4.0 compatible) via Visual Studio. The target framework can be selected from the project properties.

If you use the command line then you will have to set a switch to target a particular framework:

  Framework    Compiler Switch    Linker  
.NET 1.1/CLRdbk_link
.NET 2.0/CLR /CLR_VER 2dbk_link2
.NET 3.0/CLR /CLR_VER 2dbk_link2
.NET 3.5/CLR /CLR_VER 2dbk_link2
.NET 4.0/CLR /CLR_VER 4dbk_link4

The reason you have to specify the .NET framework is that many people have multiple versions on their machine, probably without realising. In addition, you need to use a different linker for .NET 2.0 (dbk_link2) and .NET 4.0 (dbk_link4) because the linker runs under the destination framework to produce the final code.

.NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 is .NET 2.0 with extra libraries -- hence you just use the .NET 2.0 support for those version.

To debug .NET 4.0 code you will require Visual Studio 2010.

To use any framework, that version's directory must be on the path.

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