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WinForms Controls > Prerequisites

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Prerequisites

This document contains information about system requirements for installing and using DevExpress WinForms Controls.

.NET Framework

The table below highlights supported .NET Framework versions.

DevExpress Version	.NET 2.0	.NET 3.5	.NET 4.0	.NET 4.5	.NET 4.5.2	.NET 4.6	.NET 4.7
v18.2 (current)
All Versions
v16.2-v18.1
v14.2-v16.1
v13.1-v14.1
v12.1-v12.2
v11.2
v10.1-v11.1
v9.3

Support for the .NET Client Profile has been discontinued by Microsoft with the release of .NET Framework 4.5. DevExpress controls do not support the .NET Client Profile starting with v14.2.

IDE

The table below highlights Visual Studio versions supported by DevExpress WinForms Controls.

DevExpress Version	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2013
v18.2 (current)	¹	¹
All Versions
v16.1.11-v18.1
v14.2-v16.1.10
v12.2.15-v14.1
v12.1-v12.2.14
v11.2
v10.1-v11.1
v9.3

Note

¹Starting with version 18.2, DevExpress source code targets C# 6.0. You can still use our pre-compiled assemblies in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. However, it is not possible to recompile DevExpress source code in these Visual Studio versions.

Visual Studio Express editions may not support all design-time features of DevExpress WinForms controls.

If you require a previous version of a DevExpress product, log in to the Download Manager page on the DevExpress website.

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