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I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Another reason why .Net 3.0 should be called .Net 2.5 (or something similar)

Paul Kinlan

This post agrees with Kirk Allen Evans's argument that .NET 3.0 should be named something closer to 2.5 due to its reliance on the 2.0 framework and compilers. The additive nature of the release doesn't warrant a full version number increment.

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.NET Framework 3.0

Paul Kinlan

Microsoft has renamed WinFX to .NET Framework 3.0. This new version will include the existing .NET Framework 2.0 components (ASP.NET, WinForms, ADO.NET, additional base class libraries, and the CLR) along with new technologies like WPF, WCF, WF, and WCS. However, there's no mention of C# 3.0 being included, and the author finds this renaming confusing and unnecessary.

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