Hello everyone,

Admittedly I have not spent a lot of time on this subreddit specifically, but like many of you I am active in related forums and today I come to ask for some advice.

I have recently started a project for a professor at my university. I recently ran into a problem where since I was targeting the .NET Framework 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, I was unable to install packages (via NuGet) that I need. My professor also has Visual Studio 2017, so I went on my way to install the necessary packages with NuGet again, only this time in a blank new C# project, targeting .NET Framework 4.6.1 and it built fine with flying colors.

I read this on the Microsoft blog about compatibility:

You can target the .NET Framework 4.6.1 in Visual Studio 2012 or later by installing the .NET Framework 4.6.1 Developer Pack.

Therein lies my problem, my professor was using VS 2010, when the necessary target framework requires VS 2012 or later. What a headache.

He gave me the green light to migrate our existing code base (it's... very large) to function with VS 2017. And so that brings me to where I need your help.

Question/Advice Wanted: Does anyone have a "correct" or "formal" processing in migrating the code base from a VS 2010 .NET Framework 4.0.0 to a VS 2017 .NET Framework 4.6.1 code base? Everything is in C#, if that makes a difference.

Thank you guys very much for the help.

TL:DR: My background is in machine learning and new to .NET; my research professor wants me to migrate a VS 2010 Ultimate .NET Framework 4.0.0 code base to a VS 2017 .NET Framework 4.6.1 code base, best way to proceed?

Please let me know if you need more info or if I've posted in the wrong subreddit/if there is another subreddit that I can xpost to!

Cheers