Pavel Minaev
7/22/2008 4:40:00 PM
On Jul 22, 8:31 pm, Terry Holland <MSDNNospam...@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> I have been asked to do a bit of research into the dotNet 3.0 framework to
> try to determine when we should upgrade to this environment.
> Ive done a bit of research and have read about some of the new features
> (WWF, WCF, CardSpace & WPF) but I need to know if there will be any negative
> impact on any of our existing systems.
No. .NET 3.0 is in effect an incremental update - it just adds a
couple new libraries to the framework, without touching the existing
libraries, compiler, or the runtime. All your code that worked under
2.0 will work exactly the same under 3.0.
Note that this is not true for 3.5, which updates 2.0 to 2.0 SP1 - so
there is some possibility of breakage there.
> Also, I want to have a look at new features on offer in the dotnet 3.0
> framework. Can I use WWF, WCF & WPF in VS 2005? If so, where would I find
> good infor & examples on this?
You can just add references to 3.0 assemblies in your VS2005 project,
and start using classes from them. You won't get the visual WPF and WF
designers, though - there was a preview version of those available for
VS2005, but it was just that - a preview, and not very stable one at
that. IIRC Microsoft has pulled it from downloads not long ago, and
stated that you should just use VS2008 now that it's out.