.NET version 2.0

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Okay, I've been out of the loop for a bit, and this question seems appropriate for this forum. What is the latest version of .NET currently available? Version 2.0? I think I am running version 1.1.4322...something like that. How far behind the times am I?
 
KnuckleHead said:
Okay, I've been out of the loop for a bit, and this question seems
appropriate for this forum. What is the latest version of .NET currently
available? Version 2.0? I think I am running version 1.1.4322...something
like that. How far behind the times am I?
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1.1.4322 is the newest, the 2.0 framework is in beta or prebeta or
something. I can't say specifically
 
Daniel O'Connell said:
1.1.4322 is the newest, the 2.0 framework is in beta or prebeta or
something. I can't say specifically
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.... because then you'd have to kill us?
 
...because I don't know offhand!

Bad wording, sorry about that.
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:-)
Yeah, I guessed - it'd be kind of funny if there was some Whidbey NDA
enforcement team prowling about though :-)
 
Steve McLellan said:
:-)
Yeah, I guessed - it'd be kind of funny if there was some Whidbey NDA
enforcement team prowling about though :-)
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LOL, that it would(and, frankly, this is the last place I'd violate NDA).
However, AFAICT, Whidbey is not covered by any NDA. The whidby newsgroups
are publically accessible and the CTP is released to MSDN subscribers and
TechEd attendees.
 
Steve McLellan said:
LOL, that it would(and, frankly, this is the last place I'd violate NDA).
However, AFAICT, Whidbey is not covered by any NDA. The whidby newsgroups
are publically accessible and the CTP is released to MSDN subscribers and
TechEd attendees.
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Ah, I'm neither of those - I learn from hiding under tables in wealthier
companies' canteens. I dream of a day when someone gives me some beans worth
spilling... Whidbey does sound splendid, not least because as a C++
developer, all the bug fixes we submit are replied with 'Fixed in Whidbey'
:-)
 
Steve McLellan said:
Ah, I'm neither of those - I learn from hiding under tables in wealthier
companies' canteens. I dream of a day when someone gives me some beans
worth
spilling... Whidbey does sound splendid, not least because as a C++
developer, all the bug fixes we submit are replied with 'Fixed in Whidbey'
:-)
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Plus you get that new managed syntax to play with! If you care about that
sort of thing, anyway.
 
Okay, I've been out of the loop for a bit, and this question
Plus you get that new managed syntax to play with! If you care about that
sort of thing, anyway.
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That all looks a bit terrifying. It seems to be all hats and carrots. Still,
even our Mac guys have admitted .NET's pretty good and that's something. Be
really nice when Mono gets more mature and everything gets properly cross
platform.
 
Steve McLellan said:
That all looks a bit terrifying. It seems to be all hats and carrots.
Still,
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Its got to be better than the current stuff. I wrote a few thousand line dll
in it...I spent quite abit of time throwing various keywords together hoping
that that particular combonation would work.
even our Mac guys have admitted .NET's pretty good and that's something.
Be
really nice when Mono gets more mature and everything gets properly cross
platform.
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It is pretty nice. The only issue I have with cross platform support is
UI's. No matter what everyone says and all the work put into it, I've yet to
see a cross platform GUI lib that doesn't have some issue or another on one
platform. Even if you use a lib that uses underlying platform controls, you
still have the issue of expected behaviour, which varies per platform per
control. Even layout is subject to this, IMHO.
 
Its got to be better than the current stuff. I wrote a few thousand line dll
in it...I spent quite abit of time throwing various keywords together hoping
that that particular combonation would work.

It is pretty nice. The only issue I have with cross platform support is
UI's. No matter what everyone says and all the work put into it, I've yet to
see a cross platform GUI lib that doesn't have some issue or another on one
platform. Even if you use a lib that uses underlying platform controls, you
still have the issue of expected behaviour, which varies per platform per
control. Even layout is subject to this, IMHO.
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But surely you're forgetting Java's AWT and Swing! Oh, wait... point taken.
That's true, and maybe there's no way around that (although I've got my
suspicion that OS X and Windows will become the same thing within a cople of
years - they keep stealing features and behaviour from each other at the
moment). But we need to write algorithms in C++ for execution speed (plus
one of our guys is seemingly obsessed by templates) and .NET has been a
great way of implenting all the other bits and pieces of an application that
traditionally take forever. I now face doing the same in Objective C, when
it'd be really good just to be able to tweak the UI layout and code a little
and have everything else working well.
 
Ah, I'm neither of those - I learn from hiding under tables in wealthier
companies' canteens. I dream of a day when someone gives me some beans worth
spilling... Whidbey does sound splendid, not least because as a C++
developer, all the bug fixes we submit are replied with 'Fixed in Whidbey'
:-)
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You can get it without being a subscriber. I think you can call MS and
they will send it to you. They may charge you shipping.
 
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