Ride the platform wave: .NET 1.1
Robert, your article is good, but what are you doing to people that everywhere you write something you trigger so much passion ;-))
Read one of the comments below your article:
Why are you so angry?
Side by side execution is very nice when we are talking about assemblies running under one platform.
But when it comes to the platform itself being subject to this SxS, then it's a nightmare:
How do I know that the platform I'm writing my code under has been installed in the target machin(s)?
This means I have to include with every program I package an installation of the framework my program runs under.
Microsoft wants ultimately to base the operating system itself on the .NET platform.
As such, it MUST be upgradeable, i.e. backward-compatible. Otherwise, side-by-side hell is more serious a problem than dll hell, imagine the multiplicity of "frameworks" splintering everywhere.
This is what I understood from what has been said so far about the matter.
If I'm wrong, that does not make me stupid or ignorant, as your angry, and unacceptably rude, language implies.
I think of other people on the TechRepublic or Builder.com sites as peers.
Peers help each other reach a better understanding, not (ab)use them to vent their anger.
I want to hear from you an anlysis why it's a good thing to have SxS EVEN for platforms,
and I want you to relinquish any use of irrelevant remarks about any member's understanding or the lack thereof.