I just downloaded the latest VS2010 Beta 1 to play with, and am contemplating making breaking changes to the library that use C# 3.5 features. How important is VS 2005 support to people? Is everyone running VS2008 or later? Or do I need to maintain the 2005/C# 2.0 backwards compatibility?
Let me know in the comments, I will be steadily making changes here.
Go for it. I’m on VS2008.
using vs 2008
hi, i’m still using vs2005. what features from C# 3.5 are you looking to use?
I’m also on VS2005. And I also am curious to know what features you want to use of C# 3.5
I’m still using VS2005. Expensive to upgrade. Not sure how much of my code I would have to rewrite.
Please move to 2008 if possible. Thanks & great work!
Sounds like a mixed bag. Given a couple of the 2005 users, for now I will continue to maintain vs2005 support, but by the time VS2010 comes out, it is likely I will start supporting VS2008 and later only.
New features are just auto properties, and linq for some of the enumerations. I am also thinking of repatterning the events to allow arbitrary rebinding.
I am a VS2008 user and it would be great if you brought the code up to .NET 3.5.
Someone will have to correct me on this if I am wrong, but can’t VS 2005 users use the .NET 3.5 framework if they just load it on their computers. I believe you can get it for frewe from Microsoft.
Doug
my colleague and I’m on VS2008 and will head for 2010 asap. we are excited about all that new powerful features in .Net 4.0! support for .Net >=3.5 would be great!!
VS2008 here, plan to upgrade if they do another dreamspark promotion.