Are there any advantages to staying with .net 1.1?
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It'll be installed by default in every build from September CTP on.[^]
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We still have the luxury of being two years from release, but we made the decision to go with .NET 2.0 over a year ago. Until February, we prototyped everything in .NET 1.1. As soon as VS 2005 Beta 1 came out, we switched. It required a few changes, but was otherwise painless. (We then took six months off to churn out yet another release with our nightmarish 10 year old C/C++ code base.) I say switch. .NET 2.0 not only has a richer API, I find VS 2005 a joy to work in. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Same situation with us: we started with a .NET 1.0 codebase, then 1.1, and when 2.0 beta 1 was released, we decided to go with it. Right now I'm very happy with that decision because of all the code & time saved via generics, anonymous methods, and iterators. Plus the new menu strips, table layout controls, splitters, and other controls that are really a must-have. I find VS 2005 better than 2003 as well; it seems the forms designer still has an occassional bug where it can't display a form unless you restart VS or delete the bin/obj folders. But hey, it's better than VS 2003's "The Woe" bug. :-p
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Do you know if those people really had valid copies of Windows?
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David Wulff wrote:
Do you know if those people really had valid copies of Windows?
No, I admit I don't. And on further research, I find that it's been updated and improved, so it is working properly now.
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Technically that is possible - although it was NGWS in 1999 - but obviously there would be very, very few people who would have that amount of experience and they probably wanted to pay the standard rate that any Win dev would get. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT
Yeh, I know, but what they were willing to pay was not in the salary range for someone with that exposure. Basically, the agent, who has not real idea was looking for a .NET guy, in the way he would look for a Java guy with 5 years experience. They just did not know the framework and languages had not been out that long, and by what they were asking implied a lot more about where that person had worked. i.e. an MS insider who had worked on the .NET project.
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