Hi,

I'm having some serious issues with the 1.1 IDE (Visual Studio 2003)
and thinking of moving to the 2.0 beta IDE. My question is: Do I have
to migrate my existing 1.1 code to 2.0 standards to continue develop
..NET 1.1 applications? Or can I still use 1.1 (DataGrids etc) in the
2.0 IDE?

Thanks,

Cristoffer Crusell

Crusell,

Both not, the next version of the VS005 beta is scheduled and beside that is
it not allowed to use that for real production development.

Cor

As Cor pointed out, this is a bad idea with any Beta software. I wouldn't
recommend installing the Whidbey beta on any machine where you intend to
develop production software.

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"Crusell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm having some serious issues with the 1.1 IDE (Visual Studio 2003)
> and thinking of moving to the 2.0 beta IDE. My question is: Do I have
> to migrate my existing 1.1 code to 2.0 standards to continue develop
> .NET 1.1 applications? Or can I still use 1.1 (DataGrids etc) in the
> 2.0 IDE?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cristoffer Crusell
>

Hi Cristoffer,

Each release of Visual Studio is tied to a Framework release. V1.0 - VS.Net
2002, V1.1 - VS.Net 2003, V2.0 - VS.Net 2005. You'll be able to load your
project into VS.Net 2005 but then you will be coding solely against the
version 2.0 of the framework. You can not create a program in VS.Net 2005
that will run under version 1.1 of the framework. If you want to continue
developing so that people with version 1.1 of the framework can run your
code you'll need to develop in VS.Net 2003. Note that any program you
create with VS.Net 2003 should work for people who in the future only have
V2.0 of the framework installed, but not the other way around.

Also note that V2.0 is in beta as is VS.Net 2005. You can not release your
program to production until those versions are released to the public.
However if you aren't planning on releasing your app for a while then moving
to V2.0 might be perfect timing for you. Also, if you do install VS.Net
2005 make sure you back up your system or better yet get another system
solely for your 2005 development! I would search these newsgroups first to
find out about what people are saying running 2003 and 2005 side by side on
the same machine. And one more time - back up first! Good luck! Ken.

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"Crusell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some serious issues with the 1.1 IDE (Visual Studio 2003)
> and thinking of moving to the 2.0 beta IDE. My question is: Do I have
> to migrate my existing 1.1 code to 2.0 standards to continue develop
> .NET 1.1 applications? Or can I still use 1.1 (DataGrids etc) in the
> 2.0 IDE?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cristoffer Crusell
>