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What's New in .NET Framework 2.0
Visual Studio 2005 sees major enhancements to the IDE and the .NET languages, plus support for a new version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. Alex Homer introduces an extensive series of articles that provide a high-level overview of the new features as they affect Web developers, Windows Forms developers and anyone working with relational or XML data.
Author: Alex Homer
Last updated: May 2005
The Microsoft .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR) model that was released only a couple of years ago dramatically changed the way in which we develop applications of all kinds for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Now, as version 2.0 approaches release, developers can look forward to a whole series of new and enhanced features within the Framework. The following diagram shows the relationship between the elements that make up the development and execution environment for .NET applications, and which are discussed in this series of articles. Click on the relevant block to link to the relevant article: Find out more
Some of these features represent the implementation of original design goals for the Version1.0 release of .NET, but which were not completed in time for that release. Others are completely new features that have been prompted by developers. And while much is evolution, there are some features that provide completely new opportunities for writing better, more efficient and faster code with less effort on the behalf of the developer.
This series of articles provides a high-level overview of the changes and new features in version 2.0, compared to version 1.0 (and the intermediate 1.1 bug fixes and enhanced features release):
A full list of the namespaces and classes in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework and their properties, methods and events is available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/d11h6832.aspx.
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