As I understand it the transition from 1.1 to 2.0 is smooth. I haven't
heard of anyone saying that they had to make a bunch of tweaks to their
code to make the changeover.
Client machines should ("should") be automatically updated by Microsoft
Automatic Update, so they should all have both frameworks loaded on
them.
Has anyone out there found that they _have to_ run side-by-side? I'd be
interested to find out why. [BTW, we haven't gone to 2.0 yet... that's
why I'm interested. ]
The CLR for .NET 2.0 will execute v1.0 and v1.1 assemblies (DLLs and EXEs)
cleanly 99.9% of the time. Typically no machine having v2.0 of the framework
necessarily needs v1.1 of the framework unless an application explicitly
requires it for some strange reason.
As I understand it the transition from 1.1 to 2.0 is smooth. I haven't
heard of anyone saying that they had to make a bunch of tweaks to their
code to make the changeover.
I've seen problems. There are various small incompatibilities, not all
of which are documented.
Has anyone out there found that they _have to_ run side-by-side? I'd be
interested to find out why. [BTW, we haven't gone to 2.0 yet... that's
why I'm interested. ]
Yes. I have seen applications which won't work on 2.0, which means that
if someone has already installed 2.0 in order to use applications which
require it, they still need to run others with 1.1. In ASP.NET, this
can mean setting individual virtual directories to use specific
versions.
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