Further clarification on various versions of .Net

Scott Hanselman has an excellent post clearing the confusion surrounding .Net Framework versions. Although, I did take a shot at explaining my understanding of them, but I guess I wasn’t entirely correct. Here’s a summary of Scott’s explanation:

image So, the CLR in 3.5 is still the same one as 3.0 and 2.0. The difference is new compilers for C# and VB; as well as some additional assemblies.

You have to read Scott’s post on this topic which is far more authoritative and complete. You definitely want to read it if you are working on an Asp.Net project on Framework 3.5 (like I am).



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4 Responses to “Further clarification on various versions of .Net”

  1. before this i don’t know all these things
    so whats the main difference here clr is same
    and think clr is most important thing in the .net architecture.
    some where i also found that .net 3.5 is .net 2.0+sp1+some+other things
    mainly .net 3.5 has inbuilt support for ajax as my understanding says what u think about all these things.

  2. well, yes aside from the new language compilers for LINQ support, .Net 3.5 is basically some additions such as Ajax (among others) to the 3.0 framework…

  3. A picture can say 1000 words:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DotNet.svg

  4. Excellent post. *stumbles*

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