Journey through .NET 1.0 to .NET 3.5

.NET Framework has covered long path and .NET 3.5 is available for developers. In the similar fashion Visual Studio 2008 has also been developed each time to accompany the newly developed .NET Framerowk version.

Lets understand about these evolution of various .NET Framework versions and Visual Studio suite.

.NET Framework --|---Year----|---CLR---|-------Supported VS
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.NET 1.0 -------------2001-------1.0.3705------Visual Studio 2002(Rainer)
.NET 1.1--------------2002-------1.1.4322------Visual Studio 2003(Everett)
.NET 2.0-------------2005-------2.0.50727----Visual Studio 2005(Whidbey)
.NET 3.0-------------2006-------2.0.50727----VS 2005 extensions for.NET 3.0
.NET 3.5-------------2008-------2.0.50727----Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
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.NET 3.0 comes with following brand new features:
* WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation)
* WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)
* WWF or WF(Windows Workflow Foundation)
*WC (Windows Cardspace)

.NET 3.5 comes with following brand new features:
*LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
*ADO .NET 3.5 with Entity Framework
*ASP.NET 3.5