Visual Studio 2015: Create VSTO project for Office 2010 and above that targets .NET 3.5

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Vladimir Almaev picture Vladimir Almaev · Sep 4, 2015 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

Is it possible to create VSTO project for Office 2010 and above that targets .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2015?

When I try to create it I don't see any project templates: 1

If I change version of .NET Framework to 4.0 or above then I can see project templates for Office 2010: 2

I have Windows 10 with activated .NET 3.5 feature, VS 2015 Enterprise.

Answer

Vladimir Almaev picture Vladimir Almaev · Sep 6, 2015

MSDN says that we cannot develop VSTO Addins that targets .NET 3.5 since Visual Studio 2012: 1

For more information, please, see "Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Installation Scenarios":

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