C# Official Supported .NET Version

Magnus Woodgate

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Apr 29, 2020, 5:37:13 AM4/29/20

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Hi,

I was looking at the support for Protobuf for C# and there was no clear definition for which version of .NET is officially supported.

Is there a table of Protobuf releases to .NET releases support or similar?

Or which version of Protobuf would support .NET 4.0?

Thanks in advance.

Marc Gravell

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Apr 29, 2020, 6:44:52 AM4/29/20

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The google protobuf package ( https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Protobuf/) supports .NET 4.5 upwards;

protobuf-net (an independent / unaffiliated implementation of the serializer) supports .NET 2.0 and upwards for v2.*, but: from v3.* onwards that will change to .NET 4.6.1

Frankly, you are going to have your work cut out for you long term if you target .NET 4.0 - since that ended life in 2016. I am going to strongly advise you to look into moving to a more modern platform; ultimately you're currently asking open source library maintainer to pay for your technical debt - I've discussed this in more detail here: https://blog.marcgravell.com/2020/01/net-core-net-5-exodus-of-net-framework.html

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Magnus Woodgate

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Apr 29, 2020, 9:20:10 AM4/29/20

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Hi Marc,

Thanks for getting back on this matter - the nuget package was exactly what I was looking for, I should have started there.

Good to be clarified - and removing tech debt is always the plan!

Regards,

Magnus

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 12:44:52 PM UTC+2, Marc Gravell wrote:

The google protobuf package ( https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Protobuf/) supports .NET 4.5 upwards;

protobuf-net (an independent / unaffiliated implementation of the serializer) supports .NET 2.0 and upwards for v2.*, but: from v3.* onwards that will change to .NET 4.6.1

Frankly, you are going to have your work cut out for you long term if you target .NET 4.0 - since that ended life in 2016. I am going to strongly advise you to look into moving to a more modern platform; ultimately you're currently asking open source library maintainer to pay for your technical debt - I've discussed this in more detail here: https://blog.marcgravell.com/2020/01/net-core-net-5-exodus-of-net-framework.html

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 10:37, Magnus Woodgate <magnus....@sonova.com> wrote:

Hi,

I was looking at the support for Protobuf for C# and there was no clear definition for which version of .NET is officially supported.

Is there a table of Protobuf releases to .NET releases support or similar?

Or which version of Protobuf would support .NET 4.0?

Thanks in advance.

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