Any good references for using Visual Studio 2003 and .Net Framework 2.0 together.?

I work for a company and we currently develop software using Visual Studio 2003 on the Microsoft .Net Framework version 1.1

I have been tasked to look at a Content Management System written in C# but runs on the .Net Framework version 2.0. I know that I can have both frameworks installed on the same machine. What I would like to know is what I would need to be able to develop applications (in case we need to make any modifications to the CMS package) using Visual Studio 2003 for the .Net 2.0 framework. Any good websites or whitepapers or anything similar would be appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation.....

Any good references for using Visual Studio 2003 and .Net Framework 2.0 together.?microsoft live

From everything I have seen you can't. Even on the MSDN library it claims that to work with a certain version of the framework you have to get the corresponding Visual studio. This doesn't mean that you can't create a project in the 1.1 version and not have it run in 2.0, it is saying that the actual development environment is hard wired to a specific version.

To create 2.0 framework applications you need visual studio 2005. However the .NET 2.0 framework should be able to run programs written for the 1.1 because it is backwards compatible.

I could find no official white papers, but people on and off the MSDN forums have said that each visual studio is tied to a version of the .NET framework. One report even said the 2003 debugger crashes when encountering the .NET 2.0 framework by accident. (There was a fix for it)

So it is pretty safe to say that if you want to develop in 2.0 that you will need 2005. Better hurry, I believe the free download expires this month.

Hope this helps!