The following represents a draft upgrade path as .NET developers move to .NET 3.5.
It is amazing how things get som much better as we move forward!
--system and/or platform requirements for .Net 3.5 for developers
Developers would require a version of Visual Studio 2008 Professional or higher
--system and/or platform requirements for .Net 3.5 for application users
Users would require the .NET 3.5 framework installed on their machines
(RTI websites would need to have the .NET 3.5 framework installed as well)
--compatibility issues
Visual Studio 2008 is 100% backward compatible with .NET 2.0 and provides a mechanism for you to target which version of the framework you wish to build with. I.e. you can still write 100% .NET 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2008. All solutions that were created in Visual Studio 2005 would be 100% compatible in Visual Studio 2008.
--compelling new / better features of immediate use for applications (very brief -- no details)
LINQ – A new data modeling and query language to help abstract the data layer
ASP.NET Ajax 3.5 support
Client Application Services – allows for Membership authentication for Ajax and
client apps
WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation is a new alternative to Windows Forms based applications. This framework provides a whole new approach to UI building and interaction.
Silverlight development
Unit testing is now built into IDE
Web form designer support greatly enhanced for WYSIWYG
Intellisense for javascript
Version targeting for .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
Office based development tools now included standard
WCF & Windows Workflow – new programming architectures to build applications with.
--URLs for reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
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