You certainly know that Nova by Vertice technologies are built on the top of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and are executed through Common Language Runtime 2.0. This choice is still acceptable since we want to target most of Windows platforms.
However, you can change this default behavior and use CLR 4.0 instead of CLR 2.0, by simply changing Nova Studio Configuration file.
You will find a file called “Vertice.NovaStudio.exe.config” in Nova Studio install directory. For 32 bits systems: « C:\Program Files\Vertice\Nova Studio 2010 » and for 64 bits systems: « C:\Program Files\Vertice\Nova Studio 2010\x64 ».
Then, you only have to add the next tag in the configuration file root:
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
Here it is a screenshot of Nova Studio running with CLR 4.0:
Maybe you wonder why it may be useful to run on CLR 4.0, mainly for many Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 news. As an example (it’s not the only one), if you want to use Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 in Nova Studio Plugins. Another article will demonstrate this possibility.