Visual Studio 2010's support for .NET 4.5

Question

Having read numerous posts on the net and here at Stack Overflow about this I still am unsure as to whether VS 2010 supports .NET 4.5. MS states on http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=30653 that it is an in place upgrade .NET 4.

Does this mean that once .NET 4.5 has been installed on a machine with VS2010 installed I can still leave my target as .NET 4 but it will actually be using 4.5? For various reasons I cannot upgrade to VS 2012.

All pointers greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can't target .NET 4.5 with VS2010.