What is new in .NET 3.0 ?

c# 3.0 features
what is new in .NET 3.5?
First, as you no doubt know by now, .NET 3.0 is what we were calling WinFx until last week and is composed of (among other things):

Technology Name (Acronym) [Former Code Name]

Windows Presentation Foundation Classes (WPF) [Avalon] - Arguably the heart of .NET 3, this is the technology for building rich Windows applications with special features for managing layout, text, 2-d and 3-d graphics and much more.

Nothing new in .NET3.5 except some small features.
Windows Communication Foundation Classes (WCF) [Indigo] - A new framework for inter-process communication that will change the way we interact with web services and the way we implement remoting.



Windows Workflow Foundation Classes (WF) - You’d think this would be WWF but the World Wide Wrestling Foundation thinks differently. This is a framework for creating workflow engines that can be incorporated into your application
Info Spaces [InfoCards] - A very nice way to deal with controlling how you identify yourself and how much information you provide on the web.



At the same time that .NET 3 is coming out, ASP.NET is changing, though not quite simultaneously and not as part of the .NET 3.0 release. The key change to ASP.NET will be the release of ATLAS, the .NET Ajax technology and controls.
While all this is happening, Microsoft will also be getting ready to release ORCAS - the next release of Visual Studio, and, oh by the way, C# 3 (with some very impressive new features and the next release of Visual Basic.





Happy Programming