Compatibility between .Net 1.1 and 2.0

[Colin Stutley]

I was recently told that VS2005 will require a rewrite of VS2003
applications.

Is there any truth in this, at any level (e.g. code, VS2003 support files
..sln etc, or add-ins/iextendedprovider etc).
I can understand this if it was related to adopting new 2.0 features,
however the comment was made in terms of existing 1.1 applications.

TIA,
- Colin

 

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

No, that's not true. Things should run just fine on .NET 2.0 and your
applications should not need a "rewrite". I use VS2005 for almost all my
development work these days and compile on different platforms (inc. 1.1)
without any issues (of course, not using .NET 2.0 specific items).

Maybe "a rewrite of specific code to take advantage of certain new
features". But not a rewrite completely. In fact, I accidentally started to
run my site on ASP.NET 2 without even noticing, and there weren't any
issues.

 

[Bonj]

for instance.
Some functions that are "declared deprecated" will cause a warning, but not
an error.

 

[Colin Stutley]

Thanks for confirming my assumption.

Sometime the simplest things being assumed can turn and bite you.

- Colin