The primary reference could not be resolved because it was built against a higher version of the .NET framework than the currently targeted framework

Question

I am trying to build a project that references a 3rd party SlingshotClient.dll. The project builds fine on other developers workstations. However, I am getting the error below.

Answer 1

As a workaround, you can add the following to your .csproj file within the element.

true

Be aware that while this does make the compilation errors go away, those errors are there for a reason and ignoring them blatantly can absolutely cause issues when the binary you are referencing tries to perform code that does not work on your lower version of .NET.

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