.Net Framework 3.0 announced

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Larry said:
Ah yes, the ".NET Framework 3.0" that is actually Framework 2.0 plus
WinFX, with no actual CLR changes at all. Don't you just love
marketing!
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Yes, especially given the fact that 1.0 -> 1.1 did introduce underlying
changes (nowt like the leap to 2.0 though), I'd have expected it to be
2.1. I guess they figure that they're vastly expanding the framework
libraries, so that counts (or some other such logic).

Does anyone have any figures on the number of classes available in the
various versions of the framework?

Damien
 
Hi Nick. Will it be true that *no fixes or updates will be applied to core
2.0 at all? I would have bet yall would need/want to change some things for
the new release. BTW - I don't have an issue with the version number (some
seem to think the sky is falling).

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But, the additions of LINQ, WinFX, etc. is a big change. Of course, they
could have just called it .NET Framework 2.0+. Oh, wait, they stopped using
the + years ago.

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Cowboy said:
But, the additions of LINQ, WinFX, etc. is a big change. Of course, they
could have just called it .NET Framework 2.0+. Oh, wait, they stopped using
the + years ago.
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The introduction of LINQ would, I agree, be a big change. But this
doesn't include that! LINQ is part of 'Orcas', the next version of the
CLR and VS. This renaming of WinFX to .NET Framework 3.0 doesn't
actually include any changes to what we used to call 'the .NET
Framework'. To quote the blog post (my emphases):

"
The .NET Framework 3.0 is still comprised of

the existing .NET Framework 2.0 components, including ASP.NET,
WinForms, ADO.NET, additional base class libraries and the CLR,
[ie *everything we already have*]

as well as

new developer-focused innovative technologies in WPF, WCF, WF and WCS:
[what used to be called Avalon, Indigo, etc]
"

Basically, 'the Framework' used to mean the CLR, ADO.NET, ASP.NET,
WinForms. Now it means a whole lot more, with an upped version number
to represent not any actual changes in function, just changes in scope.
Which is pure marketing.
 
Well, yes I agree it's marketing...branding... whatever you want to call it.
It is obviously a purposeful name change meant by Microsoft to convey
something. I really don't have a problem with that per se.

But it does seem to be to be an invitation for confusion and weirdness
though - will an application developed with 2.0 of the framework still run
with 3.0 of the framework as long as you don't use any WinFX namespaces? Or
is MS going to actually bump the version on the existing framework libraries
even though there won't really be any changes there?
 
Basically, 'the Framework' used to mean the CLR, ADO.NET, ASP.NET,
WinForms. Now it means a whole lot more, with an upped version number
to represent not any actual changes in function, just changes in scope.
Which is pure marketing.
Click to expand...

I wouldn't say that. The core of the Framework is the CLR and CLI, which are
the basis (at least partially) of WCF, WCS, and WF. Each of these
technologies presents a full .Net API. The concept of "Framework" is similar
philosophically to the concept of "Plaform," meaning an infrastructure that
can be built upon.

I actually think the name is appropriate, and less confusing than having a
whole new buzz term to memorize. And I would venture to guess that it also
indicates a further migration of the Windows platform to the .Net platform,
a process which it seems Microsoft is taking incrementally.

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Larry Lard said:
But, the additions of LINQ, WinFX, etc. is a big change. Of course, they
could have just called it .NET Framework 2.0+. Oh, wait, they stopped
using
the + years ago.
Click to expand...

The introduction of LINQ would, I agree, be a big change. But this
doesn't include that! LINQ is part of 'Orcas', the next version of the
CLR and VS. This renaming of WinFX to .NET Framework 3.0 doesn't
actually include any changes to what we used to call 'the .NET
Framework'. To quote the blog post (my emphases):

"
The .NET Framework 3.0 is still comprised of

the existing .NET Framework 2.0 components, including ASP.NET,
WinForms, ADO.NET, additional base class libraries and the CLR,
[ie *everything we already have*]

as well as

new developer-focused innovative technologies in WPF, WCF, WF and WCS:
[what used to be called Avalon, Indigo, etc]
"

Basically, 'the Framework' used to mean the CLR, ADO.NET, ASP.NET,
WinForms. Now it means a whole lot more, with an upped version number
to represent not any actual changes in function, just changes in scope.
Which is pure marketing.
Click to expand...
 
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