Possible to downgrade/rollback .NET 4.5 runtime?

Brian David Berman picture Brian David Berman · Jul 8, 2013 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I was wondering if there was a way to rollback or downgrade the .NET 4.5 runtime back to .NET 4.0. I am not talking about rolling back projects that are targetting 4.5 and bringing them back to 4.0, I am wondering if I upgrade the .NET framework to 4.5 of the runtime, is there a way to go back?

Answer

muratgu picture muratgu · Jul 8, 2013

There is a good attempt to explain it here by Hanselman. However, I believe it is still confusing.

The way I understand is that if you want to go back, you will need to uninstall 4.5 and 4.0 and re-install 4.0.