VS 2003 can not debug .NET 2.0 apps.

re: VS 2003 can not debug .NET 2.0 apps.

Andrei Ignat — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:59:04 GMT

I have not expected that VS2003 can debug 2005 programs... but yes, I expect the viceversa.
I am used with this from Word - each version of word can open "younger" created docs - but not oldest.
And for a reason ... usually you can not know very well the future - but it easier to know the past

re: VS 2003 can not debug .NET 2.0 apps.

Matt — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:20:44 GMT

My old Java IDEs work with my newer JAVA SDKs. I would expect the Visual Studio 2003 to be able to compile .Net 2.0 code and the Object process should be able to parse 2.0's classes using the System.Reflection class.

re: VS 2003 can not debug .NET 2.0 apps.

jmstall — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:21:40 GMT

Matt - that's a noble goal, and it would be nice if VS worked that way.
Regarding Reflection: there are some inate limitations to your proposal. How would you express a V2.0 Generic type through V1.1's reflection? (which does not know about generics).
Solutions usually fall into 2 camps:
1) "type erasure": Basically, all V2 types would look like V1 types. This means you couldn't instantiate a generic type across libraries.
2) shoehorn v2 to look like v1 as much as possible. Hwoever, even if the API signatures stay the same, there will almost always be some broken semantics / invariant. If you push a tool in the right way, the tool will hit that and explode. For example, a non-generics-aware V1 tool may get confused when it sees the same method compiled two different ways.

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