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.NET 2.0 or 3.5
July 8th, 2009 by Dario Solera | Filed under Community.Quick question: does it make sense to still target the .NET Framework 2.0 when 3.5 is already at its SP1 milestone and 4.0 is just a few months away?
One year ago it made a lot sense in my opinion, but today it would just be better to switch to target 3.5. Actually, there are not that many things that could be possibly improved with the greater version (I’m not going to rewrite parts of code on purpose), but I’m thinking about some cool features such as WCF (a web-service API is in the long-term plans).
Any thought?
Update: I’m converting the Visual Studio projects to .NET 3.5 and doing some tests right now.
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I would suggest to go for .NET 3.5. The ScrewTurn audience (i.e. webmasters) should be knowledgeable enough to know how to perform a .NET upgrade anyway. My 2cts on the subject
FW3.5!
I already converted my version of STW very long time ago.
because it has much of improvements.
for ex., it is much easier to find item in array by using myList.Find(i => i.PageName == “MainPage”) than by using a loop.
method extensions, lambda, many other charms!
it is worth to go to FW3.5 right now!
don’t afraid, we are with you
Dima.
In server software, I think is a no-brainer to upgrade, since you (usually) have control of the server and is (usually) only one machine to upgrade.
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NET 3.5 ++
Dario, If you personally would rather work in .NET 3.5 (and who doesn’t!), then you should do that. Everyone should be using 3.5 by this point anyway. -Dave
p.s. Congrats on RC1! Very much looking forward to the final release.
thanks, gr8 to see it in .net 3.5
and for compatibility with other stuffs, normal asmx web services would also be gr8 after completing WCF.
Sucks for me. We’re not upgrading to 3.5 until next year. Looks like I’m out of the ScrewTurn boat, at least until then.
@Frank: don’t be afraid, version 3.0 final won’t be released before mid September (or even later, considering the previous experience) and you can always download the source and change the project targets to .NET 2.0 (no .NET 3.5-only features will be implemented in the short term).
@Dario,
That’s a relief. I’m very much liking Screwturn. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Cheers,