Woo! Visual Studio 2008 has a "Target Framework" setting in the projects, so you can use it to make applications which work on .NET 2.0, but still get all the IDE improvements and all that stuff. Also, most of the language enhancements (implicit variable declaration, extension methods and lambda expressions) in C# 3.0 are handled by the compiler rather than any runtime changes, so I can use all of those too.

Explanatory note: I can't move our application development to .NET 3.0 or 3.5 as those runtimes are only available for Windows XP SP2 or later, and many of our customers still have Windows 2000 systems.

no, not quite.

pete boughton would discuss it with us for a week or so, before deciding whether to do it.

then he'd wonder whether to go for 3 or 3.5 for another week, based on some article he had read suggesting that there may be an obscure bug in 3.5 that makes certain things that no one ever uses run very slowly.

then he'd implement it in cod(sic) fusion.

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Well it was more the principle than expecting backwards compatibility for two versions.

And I'd really, really like to not develop using 1.1, it irritates me intensely. As usual though, it's out of my hands.