Comments on: Interesting news day http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/05/08/interesting-news-day/ Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:19:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nathan Pledger http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/05/08/interesting-news-day/comment-page-1/#comment-65843 Nathan Pledger Fri, 09 May 2008 13:04:12 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=1928#comment-65843 Interesting point about MS. The recent release of .NET 3.0 and then 3.5 is a case in point. What is essentially ASP.NET 2.0 with extensions has made a leap through a major version and then five further minor versions in two huge leaps. This results in confusion about what you actually are running apps on (you are running on 2.0, but using libraries from 3.0 and 3.5 - possibly compiled against the 3.5 compiler for LINQ - confused?). The individual technologies in .NET 3.0 (grouped "WinFX") are also a bit clunky. WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation - not World Wildlife Fund), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) being a case in point. Thank god they renamed WPF/E to "Silverlight". Interesting point about MS.

The recent release of .NET 3.0 and then 3.5 is a case in point. What is essentially ASP.NET 2.0 with extensions has made a leap through a major version and then five further minor versions in two huge leaps.

This results in confusion about what you actually are running apps on (you are running on 2.0, but using libraries from 3.0 and 3.5 – possibly compiled against the 3.5 compiler for LINQ – confused?).

The individual technologies in .NET 3.0 (grouped “WinFX”) are also a bit clunky. WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation – not World Wildlife Fund), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) being a case in point. Thank god they renamed WPF/E to “Silverlight”.

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