.NET 2.0/Generics Support

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I remember reading last year somewhere (I can't remember where, or how
reliable the place was) that .NET 2.0 would be coming out this year
and that it would support generics. The site:
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/

Hasn't been updated with anything recently, nor do there seem to be
any betas available. I'm going to guess that information I read
wasn't reliable or it's taking longer than expected to create .NET
2.0. Anyone know of any articles giving information about possible
release/beta dates?

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Whidbey (.Net 2.0) is Alpha and was released at PDC 2003. You need Longhorn
(PDC build) to install. I had to call MS to get the Longhorn. Not sure if
you need MSDN or not (I think so.) Check http://msdn.microsoft.com for
generics and other stuff in Whidbey.

 

[Guest]

That's interesting. I read that the final retail release of Longhorn may be delayed for 'a number of years' due to security isues. Mind you, we all know that you can't believe everything you read in the media. If Longhorn *is* delayed and Widbey relies on Longhorn then mean does that the release of Widbey would have to wait until Longorn was released?

.....or is it just a case that it is the current alpha release of Widbey will only install on the current PDC release of Longhorn.

Just curious really.

Gary

 

[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

That's interesting. I read that the final retail release of Longhorn may
be delayed for 'a number of years' due to security isues. Mind you, we
all know that you can't believe everything you read in the media. If
Longhorn *is* delayed and Widbey relies on Longhorn then mean does that
the release of Widbey would have to wait until Longorn was released?

...or is it just a case that it is the current alpha release of Widbey
will only install on the current PDC release of Longhorn.

Whidbey doesn't rely on longhorn. Whidbey is expected to be released later
this year or early next(most likely early next) simultaenously with Yukon,
the new SQL server. I recall that beta testing was expected to start thsi
summer, but recent reports have indicated that whidbey and yukon may be
pushed to early 2005 and so the beta period may start later than
expected(search the blogsphere and probably tech news sites for info on
this). Also, to my knowledge, whidbey is capable of running on windows XP,
however the whidbey IDE is the only one supported on the longhorn build
distributed at the PDC. Another version of Visual Studio, currently called
orcas, is supposed to be released along with longhorn with things like a
xaml designer, etc. That one is a good ways into the future and is still
mostly speculation.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

In addition to the other comments see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/whidbey/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/whidbey/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/

Hope this helps
Jay