Why ignoring .Net 1.1?

It's just some thoughts I got reading the comments on my previous post. I can understand the excitement to work with .Net 2.0 but guys why ignoring the people who are still working with .Net 1.1 and happy too. I have myself some legits projects I want to keep as they are but I would like to give them some refreshment without jumping to the next version.

Take the comparison with the OS. If I follow the idea, it means that 3 to 4 months after releasing Vista everybody should use it. Well not quite right my friends!

So the question is still valid, can Microsoft delivers some technologies like Atlas for everybody, 1.1 and 2.0 (OK if you forget the 1.0).

 

3 Comments

  • Microsoft (Scott Gu, etc),



    Please do not waste your resources doing this. All companies, including Microsoft have finite resources. ASP.NET 2 is very backwards compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, and there are countless components available for ASP.NET 1.1 (that also work on 2).



    Please spend your time and resources enhancing the platform, for the benefit of the entire community....And that means focusing ASP.NET 2, and ASP.NET 3.



    I would rather the team expense recources thinking about how ASP.NET 3 might benefit from enhancements like the LINQ project, rather than looking backwards.



    Thanks,



    David Taylor

  • Realistically, most of the technology dollars are NOT going to the latest technologies. The company I work for has about 15 steady clients, and I head up a couple million dollars a year in ASP 3.0 work with a near-equal amount of ASP.NET 1.1 work.

  • We have ported all our 1.1 solutions to v2, little or no problem in doing that, so why struggle with 1.1 when you can use v2?, you do not NEED to use all the new things, but it is great to have them handy and implement them when needed..

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