Michal Strehovsky • 4/19/2021

Building a universal Windows 7/Windows 10 .NET EXE

This article details a solution for building a universal .NET executable compatible with both Windows 7 (which ships with .NET 3.5) and Windows 10 (with .NET 4.x). It explains the challenge of CLR versioning and presents a method using a TLS callback written in C to set a critical environment variable before the CLR loads, allowing the same binary to run on both systems without external configuration files or scripts.

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#environment variables #Net Framework #Windows Compatibility