Support for .NET 8

[Chintu]

Hi, I am upgrading my Visual Studio solution from .NETc Framework 4.x to .NET 8. Is Excel DNA supported for the .NET 8 framework? I have installed the Excel DNA packages using NuGet from Visual Studio 2022. It seems to have installed versions 1.8.0 of all the excel DNA packages. I am, however, getting the below compilation error:

"The target platform should be specified as Windows in the project file. For example, <TargetFramework> net6.0-windows</TargetFramework>. {soln-name} C:/users/../.nuget/packages/exceldna.addin/1.8.0/build/ExcelDna.AddIn.targets

Can someone advise me what is going wrong?

Thanks in advance

Raj

[Govert van Drimmelen]

Hi Raj

 

Excel-DNA support the .NET 8 runtime, but only with the windows platform specified.

 

In your project file (.csproj or .vbproj) you’ll see a “TargetFramework” tag.

You need to set this as “net8.0-windows” instead of just “net8.0”.

So your TargetFramework tag to target .NET 8 would look like this

 

<TargetFramework>net8.0-windows</TargetFramework>

 

-Govert

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[Chintu]

Dear Govert, that was a very quick and accurate response. It works now, many thanks indeed for all your efforts.

Best wishes

Raj