Installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 2000 Pro/SP4

[Fred Mertz]

According to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b531-508d977d32a6&DisplayLang=en#Requirements

..NET 3.5 requires XP, Vista, or Server 2003. There is no mention of older
operating systems, like Windows 2000.

While.NET 2.0 can run on many older versions of Windows - going back to
Windows 98 and ME. This per...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en#Requirements


My question: Is it true that .NET 3.5 *cannot* run on Windows 2000
Pro/SP4??? I know the document says what it says, but I'm wondering and
hoping that 3.5 will run on 2000 SP4.

I ask because I have a client that will be running Windows 2000 through much
of next year, but I'd like to deliver a Windows Forms project I've built on
3.5. I'd hate to pull some of the LINQ stuff out and rework to target 2.0.

Thanks!

-Fred

 

[sloan]

You're DIW (dead in the water) for Windows2000 for 3.0/3.5 projects.

You're looking at it half empty.

The half full view is this.... MS had considered only doing 3.0/3.5 for
Vista and Server 2008.
And they made the effort to backport 3.0/3.5 to XP and 2003.
Which was a good thing, because my company is very slow to adopt a new OS,
and Vista hasn't had the easiest acceptance track.

Its (almost) 2008 dude. I loved Windows2000 and still have 2 home computers
running it.
But for new DotNet stuff, you gotta be at least on XP.


Good luck.