First off, if this is not the right forum, feel free to move this question.
Now then, for the problem:
I am trying to build a .NET 3.5 Winforms control library in VS2012 (I am doing this for the WiX Burn bootstrapper UI), and I cannot use any 3RD party controls, even if they target the .NET framework 3.5. They will only work if the target framework is .NET 4.5, and if I design with that framework and then retarget the application, all sorts of errors will pop up, and VS will quite often crash.
I am not sure what is going wrong here, and this is getting quite annoying.
In the meantime, I am using SharpDevelop to design the form, as it actually works.