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I'm trying to install the .NET Framework 4.7.1 in Visual Studio and I'm given the choice to install:
Do I need them both? What's the difference between each of them?
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NET Framework 4.6 Targeting Pack is a package that enables developers to build applications targeting the . NET Framework 4.6 using either Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download and install the . NET Framework 4.6 prior to installing the targeting pack.
NET Framework software development kit (SDK). The two products are different but intimately related. Visual Studio . NET is an application-development tool for writing applications; the .
The developer pack doesn't have anything to do with an SDK. It just contains the reference assemblies that you need to compile a project that explicitly targets 4.5.
To use the framework with Visual Studio 2012 or later install the developer type version. The runtime type version is a lighter version, meant to run applications on servers. This runtime version doesn't have the information/extensions that Visual Studio needs, so Visual Studio can't use them.
The .NET Framework SDK, is a software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft.
It is required to develop applications for the .NET Framework and it contains:
.NET Framework SDK is dedicated to developing applications for .NET Framework. When installing visual studio, this is enough.
Targeting pack is needed when You are targeting a particular .NET framework which is different from your currently installed .NET framework.
In the case of the targeting pack, let's say you build your application using .NET 4.7 but the client has .NET 4.5. For this type of scenario you can target the client's version even though you are using a higher version.
Here you can see how to target a particular .NET framework.
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