Portable Libraries for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

The Microsoft BCL team recently released the RTM version of Portable Libraries (PL). This PowerTool for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 allow you to develop managed assemblies for more than one target .NET framework. It will let you aim your code at both the full .NET Framework, Silverlight, Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and/or Xbox 360. By using the Portable Libraries you can control which targets you are aiming for and compile a single assembly that will work on all targets you selected.

The Portable Libraries has features that are close to, yet different from another piece of functionality in Visual Studio: multitargeting. It is similar in that it will help you find the allowed subset of functionality in the .NET Framework given the combination of targets you select. It is different, because it will let you have a single project where you would normally have multiple projects for class libraries targeting .NET FX (versions 2.0 to 4.0, with full or client profile) and Silverlight. For Xbox 360 you have the Xbox 360 Game Library which comes close, but is a different thing altogether. PL projects are class libraries which can host reusable managed code over all of the previously mentioned.

You can install the tooling for PL from here. Once you have done that, a new library project is available:

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