Framework 1.0 & 1.1

[Luke Vogel]

Hi all.

I'm still running v1.0 of the framework, and thought I'd do a little
research before I installed v1.1.

I've read a few messages that state that it is quite OK to run both v1.0
and 1.1 side by side.

From what I have read to-date though the issues seems to be more
related to configuration issues with IIS. If I install v1.1, will my VS
2002 be configurable to use both frameworks? (i.e. is a version of the
framework selectable, or will I be compelled to use the newer framework?)

I also see suggestions to download and update the SDK (108MB file). Can
someone shed some light on these upgrades and options etc.

Many thanks in advance.

Luke.

 

[Joshua Flanagan]

A quick look at MSDN would answer most of these questions.

From the home page, I clicked on ".NET Framework" in the "Key Topics"
section.

I was then presented with a page that had the following links:

"Deploying ASP.NET Applications Built on Different Framework Versions"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhcvs03/html/vs03f6.asp

"Side-by-Side Execution of the .NET Framework"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/sidexsidenet.asp

However, If you install V1.1, you will not be presented with a choice for
which platform to target. VS 2002 supports ONLY v1.0 and VS 2003 supports
ONLY v1.1. People have published hacks that will allow the different IDE's
to work with different Framework versions, but they are not supported.

If you install the 1.1 SDK, w/o VS 2003, you will still be able to use VS
2002 to build your 1.0 apps, and you can use the command line tools (or
ASP.NET Web Matrix) to build 1.1 apps.

 

[Luke Vogel]

Thanks for the direction Joshua ... there's sometimes so much
information that you loose sight of some of the simple sign posts.

Thanks,

Luke.

 

[Shawn Mehaffie]

One correction.

VS.Net 2003 is not limited to supporting only v1.1. You can configure and
application so that if run under both v1.0 and v1.1 of the framework. The
only limitation is that since v1.0 does not have all the new functionality
of 1.1 you have to make sure you application does not try to make calls to
functionality that is new to v1.1.

S. Shawn Mehaffie
PC Resources, LLC