Colin Neller - ASP.NET 3.5 where are you?

Saturday, June 16, 2007

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It occurred to me that I heard little (read:none) about ASP.NET 3.5 at TechEd, so I thought I would search the web to see what's coming down the pipeline. My search engine brought back the answer: nothing. You'll find some about Silverlight, some about ASP.NET futures, even a unreleased book on ASP.NET 3.5, but no real information (that I found) on ASP.NET 3.5.

My thought: "Ah, a challenge! Since I have VS 2008 Beta 1 installed, I'll just compare System.Web v2.0 to v3.5 using Reflector." Should have worked, right? Well, it may well have... had I found System.Web.dll v3.5. I did successfully find a LOT of 3.5 assemblies, but the only one under System.Web.* was System.Web.Services...

My question to the blogosphere: has anyone seen any information on ASP.NET 3.5?

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.NET 3.5 | ASP.NET

Saturday, June 16, 2007 6:09:03 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

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Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:11:13 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

With .NET Framework 3.5, most of the existing librairies (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, XML, etc.) will not be getting any major updates. Those old asemblies will only get a slight update to put those librairies up to sync to the .NET FX 2.0 SP 1 (the SP 1 should be released around the same time that .NET 3.5 ships). This is to ensure that most VS projects won't be affected by the new release.

So the bulk of the .NET Framework 3.5 is around adding stuff to the .NET Framework (similar to .NET 3.0) : LINQ, AJAX, etc.

This is wonderfully explained over here, with a neat graphic: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/net-framework-35.html

Source here

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