.NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

WF Team Bloggers — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:35:24 GMT

This week we released the Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP and this is the first time that

[AUTOSAVED] .Net Framework 3.5 CTP...

SQL Server 2005 and .NET Development Blog — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:37:03 GMT

Schlag auf Schlag, geht es mit den .Net Framework Versionen derzeit, aber das war ja irgendwie abzusehen.Das .Net Framework 3.5 hat jetzt erstmals Eingang in die Orcas-CTP (Orcas=der in Entwicklung befindliche Nachfolger von Visual Studio 2005)

Just got used to .NET 3.0? Well 3.5 is nearly here...

Insane World — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:11:08 GMT

Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP has been released, and it contains aspects of

re: .NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

Charles Chen — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:07:20 GMT

Ugh!

Why all this confusion?

First it's .Net 3.0 (but it's not *really* a new version, we just added some libraries...)

Now it's .Net 3.5 (this time, we actually changed the language specs, but we're going to release it as a point release)

How does this make any sense at all? Is C# going to be renumbered to C# 3.0? 3.5?

IMO, .Net 3.0 should have been called "Extensions for .NET 2.0" or ".NET 2.1" or ".NET 2.0 Plus!" or something less...misleading. You can't begin to fathom how confusing it is to managers when you explain to them this asynchronous numbering scheme...

re: .NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

Iskander Sierra — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:50:38 GMT

Please, stop calling your libraries .NET Framework x.0. Use minor version numbers (they've been invented for something) or use WPF.NET Framework 1.0, WCF.NET Framework 3.1415, or whatever, but differentiate them please, no more .NET Framework versions if CLR does not change.

My heart blows each time I hear that, (joking).

Congratulations to all the MS teams involved in making developer's lives easier and joyful, you are doing an excelent job, really.

re: .NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

Mike Greenway — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:08:41 GMT

Great! Looking forward to the new tools.

re: .NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

Jonas — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:55:07 GMT

I agree with Charles; if anything, the class library "3.0" should really have been 2.5 as it's implemented on the 2.0 compilers, and this "3.5" should have been 3.0. But that's been discussed quite a bit now, and will of course not change at this point with 3.0 already out. :-(

re: .NET Framework 3.5 makes first appearance in CTP

sandy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:46:23 GMT

Man, Its getting hard to catch up with newer .NET versions. We are still working with .NET 1.1 and everything works great. Don't know why we would need .NET 3.5 ???

Codename: Astoria and Jasper at Mix07

Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan Hodgson — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:54:26 GMT

Aside from the Silverlight announcements which seem to have stolen the show so far at Mix07. A couple...

LINQ and interop with other (non-Microsoft) databases

All About Interop — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:59:25 GMT

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