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Microsoft releases Vista-tied .NET framework 3.0
Friday, November 10th, 2006
At its VSConnections conference this week, Microsoft Corp is taking the wraps off the next version 
of the .NET framework, version 3.0, which is being released to developers through MSDN this week.
But the release is kind of anticlimactic because it doesn’t really add new features to the core .NET framework itself. Instead, .NET 3.0 represents an updating for the WinFX features that are part of the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. Not surprisingly, the new version of the framework was characterized as a "superset" of .NET 2.0 by Microsoft’s Jay Roxe, who is group product manager for the developer division. Although the added features of .NET 3.0 apply to the XP platform, the framework itself will be available to developers whose .NET-compliant tools obviously now run on XP.
As you might recall, WinFX is the programming framework underlying Vista, which ties presentation, communications, and workflow into the same programming engine. For instance, just as Adobe is doing with Flash and Flex, Microsoft intends to make it easier for developers to flesh out the programmatic aspects of user interfaces generated by web designers without having to rewrite the GUI. Microsoft releases Vista-tied .NET framework 3.0 - Computer Business Review
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