Star Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Nov 2007 21:16 UTC, submitted by Wyatt Lyon Preul
.NET (dotGNU too) Scott Guthrie has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are now available for download and provides a tour of some of the new features. "Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 contain a ton of new functionality and improvements. Below are links to blog posts I've done myself as well as links to videos you can watch to learn more about it."
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Woohoo!
by siimo on Tue 20th Nov 2007 01:23 UTC
siimo
Member since:
2006-06-22

VS2008 allows you to target specific .NET framework versions for your project:
2.0
3.0
3.5

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RE: Woohoo!
by atehrani on Tue 20th Nov 2007 01:46 in reply to "Woohoo!"
atehrani Member since:
2006-10-20

Please note that targeting 2.0 is NOT targeting 2.0 RTM. You will be targeting 2.0 SP1, which (depending on your application) can have significant ramifications.

This blog explains it in detail:
http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/10/09/multitargeting-aga...

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RE[2]: Woohoo!
by segedunum on Tue 20th Nov 2007 10:36 in reply to "RE: Woohoo!"
segedunum Member since:
2005-07-06

Please note that targeting 2.0 is NOT targeting 2.0 RTM. You will be targeting 2.0 SP1, which (depending on your application) can have significant ramifications

Ahhhhhhh. Backwards compatibility ;-).

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