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Quote: ...mostly for the Xamarin support, but I haven't started using it seriously.
I see, you're consistent. 
Quote: Some of my projects are still at .NET 3, and use common DLL files - so those don't get upgraded!
If you are still using .NET 3 and support old frameworks, then why bother using Visual Studio 2015? Is there a fashion in using the latest tools and outdated (sorry if that hurts!) frameworks?
The sh*t I complain about
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As I said - for the Xamarin support.
I only upgrade existing projects if I need to - but sometimes it's worth doing.
For example, .NET 4.0 added the string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace method which was a lot better than the older string.IsEmpty method. That (and some other improvements) made it worth upgrading projects when they needed changes (but not just for bug fixes). Little things can make your code better - it isn't a case of "the latest is best", or I'd be using VS2015 all the time instead of the 2013 version I only upgraded to a year ago! 
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OG, you will love Xamarin! I'm thrilled at how easy it's been to port large chunks of this[^] app to Android. And I'm no Android expert.
/ravi
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It's finding the time to learn it... 
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Just last week I updated our biggest project from 4 to 4.6.2.
It allowed me to remove some custom tool that generated variables from strings and somehow forced us to build way too often and use nameof() instead.
It allowed us to move to newer versions of various tools making use of increased security, performance, and more features.
Dat feeling...[^]
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I can check this and other 
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... the one that runs on WinXP (v4.0).
I have an old notebook for testing which runs XP and .net 4 is the last version that runs on it which has all I need (TPL, generics, lambda functions ...)
It would be nice to have the zip code built in to the framework (v4.5+).
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Many of my friends just compiling their old (framework 2.0) source code with 3.5...4.0 and now with 4.5.
Are they ....Really using 4.5 ???
I think changing/targeting a framework is not worth unless you use some good features of it.
Do you really know difference between framework 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 ??? Don't gooooogled now 
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You can target any .net framework as long as you use the new .net framework features.
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