What a glorious little library from some sharp guys.
We've been able to use the Framework 3.5 for back end processing, but have about 4,000 tablet PCs in the field infrequently connected by the most anachronistic, bandwith-challenged 56k modem, proprietary dial up hell you can imagine. Of course, these machines aren't allowed on the internet at all by the lockdown imposed by the security gestapo..their only connectivity is the sluggish modem.
No matter how I break down the framework 3.5 silent install, chopped out the prerequisites included in the MSI that are already on the tablets, there's just no way to get 3.5 on those tablets and we're gonna have to live with Framework 2.0 for the near future.
Well, I have a plan finally. We can move up to Visual Studio 2008 later this year for our apps that target these stranded framework 2.0 machines and, compile against 2.0 and use LINQBridge to provide the missing functionality for LINQ.
LINQBridge