.NET Framework 3.0 Released

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.NET Framework 3.0 Released

Published on November 6, 2006

After a long time of working on .NET Framework 3.0, which has basic changes from .NET 1.x and 2.0, Microsoft announced its RTM.

You can download it from this link and try SDK to get started and use following extensions to get benefits of programming for Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation in Visual Studio 2005:

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)

Again, new things come and change our world but this time there is nothing new for me! I've almost done whatever I wanted to do with new stuff and have had a deep study on all above three technologies in the past by reading several books, articles and other resources (that's our life!). Probably you won't see the effect of .NET Framework 3.0 and its widely usage before Vista RTM but I bet you'll love it.

+ In my mind, .NET 2.0 is very old and 1.x are in museums!

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Geoff Appleby
Nov 06, 2006 9:01 PM
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Heh. You realise of course that Vista is going to RTM in less than 24 hours? :)

Keyvan Nayyeri
Nov 06, 2006 9:05 PM
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:-D Vista is going to RTM in an age! You know Microsoft better than me ;-)

vikram
Nov 06, 2006 9:51 PM
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According to me its still some time when .Net 3.0 will be accepted by people. Dot net 3.0 sits on top of .Net 2.0 and will only be widely used once vista is out

Keyvan Nayyeri
Nov 06, 2006 9:57 PM
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I agree about the time it takes to be used by developers but disagree about the relationship between 2.0 and 3.0.

I don't know how much have you experienced with 3.0 but it has basic changes from 1.x and 2.0. I can't say it sits on 2.0 as 2.0 sits on 1.x. 3.0 has some major changes in programming model which move you from OO to SO and this is the point.

Tim Laughlin's Everything VB.NET Blog
Nov 07, 2006 8:45 AM
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The .NET Framework 3.0 has been released to manufacturing. I have not finished the install yet, but I

Keyvan Nayyeri

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