How can I get the WCF RIA Services Class Library to target the .NET Framework 4.5?

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Hello Sirs,

I have this issue that is taking me forever to figure out. Whenever I try to add a new WCF RIA Services Class Library to a Silverlight application, VS2012 asks to select the Windows Phone Platform to target for the application even though I selected ".NET Framework 4.5" for the new WCF RIA Services Class Library. This is happening after I worked on a small application for Windows Phone.

How can I get the WCF RIA Services Class Library to target the .NET Framework 4.5?

The process I am following is:

1.- Create a new Silverlight application

2.- Add new project: WCF RIA Services Class Library (.NET Framework 4.5 is selected from the drop down list on top of the Silverlight templates)

3.- The next window shown has as a title "New Windows Phone Application" and it has the message "Select the Windows Phone Platform you want to target for this application" and below the message there is a drop down list with 2 options: "Windows Phone OS 7.1" and "Windows Phone OS 8.0"

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Luis Nambiar

Posted 14-Aug-13 14:11pm

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Jens Theisen · Answer 1 · 2013-12-14T06:37:00

Silverlight and .NET use entirely different runtimes and cannot be mixed. A RIA Services (client) library cannot target the proper .NET framework.

That's the whole reason why RIA Services auto-generates classed in a client library in the first place: Because the server-side entities cannot be shared.