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VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Well people are getting rather confused by some of the messages coming from Microsoft at the moment. The predicted time for release of Visual Studio 2005 is November, and already there is talk of c# 3.0 and 4.0... so does this mean that there are 2 known revisions of the .net framework? 3.0 and 4.0 or are they going to be 2.0.X as the release of the framework... or are we talking about IDE verisons... Version control within Microsoft to the outside world is looking rather confusing. I would imagine that the versionning internally has been published in little bits externally, which is causing confusion. Would anyone like to clarify what is and isn't planned for the release. And if there will be an update a month or 2 after the initial release? Customers will not want to be doing more than 1 upgrade if they can help it... please bear this in mind.

posted @ Monday, August 08, 2005 7:24 AM

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# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Peter Foot at 8/8/2005 8:07 AM
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VS2005 will ship with C# 2.0. This refers to a revision of the language itself which offers new features - generics, anonymous methods, etc
Other versions of C# are only at the research stage at this point so you can expect them to be several years away - probably after Longhorn (sorry Windows Vista!). From what I've read so far C# v3 will focus on data - aiming to blur some of the divisions between oo programming and relational databases.

Peter

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Sarah at 8/8/2005 8:20 AM
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Thanks for that Peter. I think that clarify's everything for now.

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Neil Cowburn at 8/8/2005 8:24 AM
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Further to Peter's comments, Microsoft have, historically, introduced a new version of C# with a major release of the .NET Framework. So it is shame to assume that C# 3.0 will be released with .NET Framework 3.0, and similarly, C# 4.0 will be released with .NET Framework 4.0.

Currently, .NET Framework 3.0 and C# 3.0 are scheduled to be released with the next version of Visual Studio after Whidbey. This is codenamed "Orcas". C# 4.0 and .NET Fx 4.0 will be released with the next version of Visual Studio after Orcas (codenamed "Hawaii").

Orcas won't be released until Longhorn Server is available, which gives us an estimate of 2007 at the very earliest. Realistically, we're looking at 2008. Hawaii will be available 3 to 4 years after that.

This isn't an official roadmap or anything. Just what I think will be the case based on past experiences.

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Keni at 8/8/2005 8:43 AM
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And in my past experiences Vista will be rubbish but Longhorn will be awesome...

Just a personal opinion mind ;)

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by bhavana at 9/28/2005 4:37 AM
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any where C# 3.0 or C# 4.0 currently is being used? Is there is any download available?

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Sarah at 9/28/2005 6:08 AM
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Sorry, C# 3.0 and 4.0 are currently under development with the ms team and are not available for release in the near future. As such there is no download until they are in beta release and will only be released to a limited test user base in much the same way as Visual Studio 2005.

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Iftikhar Qamar at 5/12/2006 10:11 PM
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Dear All!

Can any one describe or can send some web reference regarding the version controlling at microsoft internally and externally.

Secondly what are the domains in which C# next versions would be improving. I mean to ask that what is the focused domain.

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by Tony Valenti at 6/22/2006 5:31 AM
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I think that if you want to get a good idea of what the next version (4.0) of C# will do, start snooping around Research.Microsoft.com . I saw a section that had one PhD working on Memory Transactions for .NET (think if you could write "undoable code" like in SQL). Given the "Do or Do Not - there is no Try" statement that some MS guy posted a while back, I really expect memory transactions in C#4.0 .

# re: VS 2005 & C# 2.0, 3.0, 4.0??!

Left by L.u.i.s. at 6/23/2008 8:37 PM
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Keni, It's 2008 and you were right about vista and longhorn.

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