If I install .NET Framework 3.0 what will happen to my VS2005 experience?

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If I install .NET Framework 3.0 what will happen to my VS2005 experience?

Will it automatically use 3.0?

Will I find new features available?

Will the VS doc be updated?


Thanks fir any info
 
3.0 is 2.0 unchanged + new features so if you don't explicitely use those
new features, it won't change anything.
Just reference those assemblies.
You may want to install updated designers depending on what you are doing.
Not sure if the doc is updated (don't remember as I tend to use the online
doc).

IMO the first step would be first to make sure you actually need something
from 3.0. If not you can easily wait for Orcas to be out...
 
Patrice said:
3.0 is 2.0 unchanged + new features so if you don't explicitely use those
new features, it won't change anything.
Just reference those assemblies.
You may want to install updated designers depending on what you are doing.
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What does this mean?


Thanks a lot
 
I looked but I'm still a little confused.
I assume VS2005 already has designers (for the Designer?)
Can you tell me about one of them to get me oriented as to what they are?


Thanks a lot
 
Yes it already have designers such as the winforms designer is what you are
using to create a form in "design mode" but putting controls in place
directly. But as 3.0 adds NEW things, there are new designers for 3.0 as
well.

IMO the very first step is first to look what is in 3.0. I'm not sure you
really need something from this. See :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687307.aspx
to see what is in 3.0....
 
Thanks for your concern.

I tried to see what was new in menus and was taken to a page to down load an
..xps file which I did.

Then I couldn't open it for lack of an app that new how.

Checking the internet I found that IE6 should know how so I tried it and was
told I needed 3.0 to read it.

I made have made a mistake some place but this is how I remember what
happened.

So I downloaded 3.0 and was able to read the file and found out (as you been
suggesting) that the changes are for apps that run under Vista which I don't
have.

Anyway, I now have 3.0 installed. Is there a down side?

Can I get rid of the older versions?

Thanks for all the help
 
No. Each version of .NET is done to run side by side with others. There is
no need to remove older .NET framework (and it's best to keep them so that
an old application could run with its preferred version).

If the goal was just to read an XPS file you don't need to change anything
in VS.NET as you'll have just to download the runtime files. I didn't
understood you just wanted to use .NET 3.0. As your question was about VS
2005 I thought you actually wanted to create something using 3.0 by
yourself...
 
Before we end this I want to say that your answers were right on the mark.
I started wondering about 3.0 and VS2005 (I was hoping one could clone menu
strip objects) and ran into the need to read XPS to find out about 3.0
menus.
Before that I never heard of XPS.
Which is interesting - to learn about 3.0 I had to get it!

Thanks again
 
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