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environment: Visual Studio 2008, .NET/C# Project Targeting Framework 2.0, Standard Setup Project

problem: Setup always requests framework 3.5

solution

• All deployed projects must target framework 2.0
• Prerequistes of setup project must be 2.0 (not 3.5). ATTENTION I couldn't change this separately for Release build and had to this manually using notepad/gvim
• Launch condition must be changed to 2.0 (I had to clean and rebuild a couple of times until it let me select 2.0)

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Some observations:

• String pooling seems to be enabled in Debug (although not selected)
• __FILE__ is expanded with relative path in release build, but contains absolute paths in debug mode. The "use full paths" option was set to "no" in Release and Debug