Moving from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 and .NET 2.0

I'm currently using VS2005 Profesional and .NET 2.0, and since our project is rather large (25 projects in the solution), I'd like to try VS 2008, since its theoretically faster with larger projects.

Before doing such thing, i'd like to know if what I've read is true: can I use VS2008 in ".net 2.0" mode? I don't want my customers to install .net 3.0 or .3.5, I just want to install VS2008, open my solution and start working from there.

Is this possible?

P.D.: the solution is a c# Window Forms project.

How do I upgrade my .NET framework 4.7 2?

Right click on my project and choose "Properties" Change the "Target Framework" to the desired choice of ". NET Framework 4.7. 2"

Is Visual Studio backwards compatible?

You can work with them as you always have, provided that you don't depend on newer features. We try to preserve backwards compatibility with previous versions, such as Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2012.

Yes it's possible. In the project properties you can target different versions of the .Net Framework going back to .NET 2.0.

Upgrading to VS 2008 will upgrade your Solution file and you won't be able to go back to VS 2005 unless you have backed up your solution