Solved Using recent VS to make older builds

Hi folks,

Not sure if I'm opening a can of worms on this one or not. But, is it possible to make older builds of plugins on more recent Visual Studio versions?

That is, say I develop plugins for an older version of C4D. Can I use a more recent version of VS to build these plugins, just to keep the development environment up to date?

Cheers,

WP.

Hi @WickedP, may I ask which version are we really talking about?

In any case you can find the recommended version in Plugin Development - Development Environments with that's said it's only a recommended one, meaning we do not provide support other version, however I would say the last version should work nicely with VS 2022, but you will need to manually convert the solution file since the project tool is only capable to generate for a given version.

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi @m_adam,

I'm hesitant to say, just because the version I use is probably out of scope of support. So I was trying to keep it a little more general. Happy to pass on if you really need to know though.

So the solution file/s will need looking at.

What about the project and project settings files? Are they likely to need amending as well?

WP.

Correct project and project settings would also need to be edited. Since in VS every parameter is referenced by a UUID that change each version.
Normally VS offer you tooling to update old solution file so if you open an old solution in VS 2022m the first thing it should offer to you is to update the solution and all its settings.

Cheers,
Maxime.

Thanks Maxime. And apologies for the delay - I didn't see the response.

WP.