On 2011-08-15, Roy Chastain wrote: >>> What I wonder is: do we really need 3.5 and 4.0 assemblies at all? > Two comments
> 1) - There seems to be a lot of confusion among developers about the > Frameworks. By reading the questions that have been asked on the list, > I believe that many of them do not realize that a 4.0 framework app can > call 3.5 framework code. It is not necessarily our job to educate them, > but there has been a lot of traffic about 4.0 and even numerous "bug > reports" about failures. I do not believe I ever saw a real description > of the failure, but it seems that several of them dealt with ADO > appenders, so there could actually be a problem with them. In this case we should investigate this. It should stick out when triaging JIRAs. > 2) - We certainly need code that will compile against the 4.0 Framework. Against 2.0, no? > I currently have a product that requires 4.0 and 3.5 and the amount of > time to install it on an out of date XP system is absurd. We all think > XP should be gone, but the reality is that it is not. Same for sever > 2003. I'm sure I know what you are talking about. Stefan
