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Convert Projects to PCL

Convert Projects to PCL

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Convert 4.5 .NET Framework projects to Portable Class Libraries (PCL)
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Discontinued Project through Microsoft .NET Core announcement

Visual Studio Extension to convert 4.5 NET projects to portable class libraries (PCL).

Select one ore more projects and choose your prefered PCL target framework and automaticly convert

your projects. Hint: Some target framework needs additional setups.

Changes per project:

  • Add new entries in '.csproj' file to support PCL
  • Remove from 'assembly.cs' the GUID and ComVisible attribute
  • Remove references to .NET Framework Libraries which are part of the portable Framework

Features:

* Support .Net Frameworks 4.5.X with C#

Please report any issues.

Source code available on GitHub

Thanks Target Framework Migrator for sharing her code

Changelog:

0.8: Supporting .NET Framework 4.6 thanks to JJrdk

0.7: Add support for older VS Projects

0.6 : Fixed several small issues.

Todos:

Support Visual Basic.NET

Change Csproj files with EnvDte and not by file edit

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