Building a VS2008 .NET 3.0 solution without installing .NET 3.5 on build server

I am developing using 3.0 and VS 2开发者_如何学JAVA008.

The problem is my build server does not have 3.5 installed and therefore I cant build the solution as MSBuild for 2.0 will not support the VS 2008 solution file.

There is no easy answer to this besides downgrading to VS 2005.

Any ideas folks?

VS2008 supports C# 3 - you may be using C# 3-specific features while still targeting .NET 2.0.

Is there a strong reason why you can't install .NET 3.5 on the build server? That would be my preferred solution, rather than regressing the version of VS you use.

You could probably automate downgrading the solution/project files - if you're not doing anything complicated, it'll just be a matter of changing version numbers - but it's not great to have the build server using a different compiler to the developers, IMO.

Since you have VS2008 projects and solutions you will need to install .NET 3.5 on you build server. Since you can still target .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 having .NET 3.5 installed on your build machine should not have any impact on the target environment.

Is it not possible to include the different versions without 'installing' them? In the repository can you add versioned .NET and point the build script to the version(I'm thinking like a submodule in Git) you want for that project? So instead of installing .NET 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, etc include the libraries?