If you need to sell VS 2005 to you company exec's -- one word "more secure"
and then toss in casual statements like "I'm glad your taking the security
responsibility and not me...". This usually get most manager types off
there ass and you'll see a .NET framework 2.0 rollout sooner than you can
get your next cup of coffee.
But more importantly to you, VS 2005 is what .NET should have been 3 years
ago. Some key factors:
Debugger:
Edit and Continue (AFT)
Visualizer for DataSet (yes you get a nice grid with the table name for
each table in the dataset and you get to see ALL the data)
IDE:
Find (at last across solution)
Intellisense is much better
Warnings
Help links actually work now
Language enhancements:
Operator overloads
Generics
and a host of other nice features...
Anyway, now that VB.NET has caught up to what I could do in VB6 5 years ago
I hope MS stick with it this time cause I for one will get off the wagon if
MS re-invent the wheel again and send me back in time yet again. Now that
the mass rush to do web development is no more and people (end users) are
realizing that IE is the worst possible interface for them, we'll start
seeing more ClickOnce deployed .NET 2.0 applications and web development
will go back to be what it is good at -- static pretty pictures. I've
delivered my first .NET 2.0 ClickOnce app that is 427KB -- most users don't
realize they're no long running under IE client but appreciate just how fast
and clean the interface is.
"amber" <am***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D**********************************@microsof t.com...
2005 isn't an option, as the company that I work for won't allow an update
to .NET 2.0 Framework.