Running Applications of Earlier Versions of .Net Framework on Framework 4.0

Running applications of the earlier versions of the .Net framework on the framework 4.0.

The .NET Framework 4 does not automatically use its version of the CLR to run the applications that are built with the earlier versions. To run the older applications with the .NET Framework 4, one must compile their application with the target .NET Framework version specified in the properties for your project in VS, or you can specify the supported runtime with the <supportedRuntime> element in an App.Config.