strategic question about frameworks

[Matthias S.]

hello,

we are currently considering to port quite a huge code base from
ASP/COM to asp.net and the .net framework (websites, class libraries,
windows applications).

the question is, what version of the .net framework should we port to?
2.0? 3.0? 3.5? does anyone have a link to information, about how the
popularity of the different versions is? does already everybody has the
3.0 framework installed on his/her computer? or should we stick to 2.0?
is there a version that comes with vista by default? if so, which one?

thanks for any links to information sources.

matthias
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

we are currently considering to port quite a huge code base from
ASP/COM to asp.net and the .net framework (websites, class libraries,
windows applications).

the question is, what version of the .net framework should we port to?
2.0? 3.0? 3.5? does anyone have a link to information, about how the
popularity of the different versions is? does already everybody has the
3.0 framework installed on his/her computer? or should we stick to 2.0?
is there a version that comes with vista by default? if so, which one?

3.0 comes with Vista, but many pre-Vista installations won't even have
2.0. However, you can redistribute it reasonably easily.

Personally I would code the server side against .NET 3.5 and the client
side against 2.0 unless you know that most of your customer-base is on
Vista.