This feature enables the C++ customers to use VS2008 toolsets while working in the VS2010 environment. Soma has mentioned this feature in his blog some time ago. VS2010 can support building against VS2008 toolsets if VS2008 is installed on the same machine. For more details on Managed Multi-targeting, please visit this blog post by one of my colleagues, Pavan Adharapurapu.
In VS2010, C++ applications support two types of Multi-targeting: Native Multi-targeting and Managed Multi-targeting. Multi-targeting is the ability to use the current version of Visual Studio to build your application with a different set of installed tools or Frameworks. In this blog, I am going to give an overview of the Native Multi-targeting feature. You can see one of my earlier blogs about the task work that we have done. For the past two years, I have been part of the team working on migrating the C++ build system from VCBuild to MSBuild as well as the new project system which is also built on top of MSBuild. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test on the C++ team. Instructions for native multitargeting in VS2017 can be found here:
