Keyvan Nayyeri

Shame on me for writing this! Shame on me and shame on anyone who forced me to write this! I'm idle so it would be obvious for an idle guy to write such posts! I'm idle, if I wasn't idle then could I keep blogging?!

I know that almost all my regular readers are .NET developers and this is something obvious! I'm a .NET learner as well so at least we can understand each other, can't we?!

Anyone who has read a book, an article, a tutorial or even some news about Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 should know that there is no .NET suffix at the end of product names anymore! We don't have Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic .NET and Visual C++ .NET anymore! Microsoft officially announced this loudly and we heard it all!

We just have .NET Framework, ASP.NET and ADO.NET as three technologies that have .NET in their names but these aren't the case! I can't understand how people want to persist on old stuff after three years? I'm really surprised! I recently saw many online materials that were referring to Visual Studio 2008 as Visual Studio .NET 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 (9.0) as Visual Basic .NET 2008 (or VB .NET 2008)!

If these authors or bloggers are .NET developers how they don't know this simple thing? If I had seen this on a forum or newsletter, I could accept that the author may be a newbie but for someone who considers himself as a developer this isn't acceptable at all! Everyday we try to shorten things to read and write them faster. When we simply call Visual Basic as VB, how we still love to use that .NET suffix?

However, I just wanted to point this out for Nth time. Hope this post reminds more guys about it!