.NET Framework 3.0 (was WinFX) - “System.” namespace will contain the following new .NET Framework 3.0 components
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - (was "Avalon")
- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - (was“Indigo”)
- Work Flow Foundation (WF)
- Windows CardSpace (WCS) - (was "InfoCard")
- .NET Framework 3.0 should be available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
- The Core of .NET Framework 3.0 is .NET Framework 2.0 (So building on existing Framework)
- 3.0 ships with Vista
.NET Framework 3.5 - “Orcas” VS 2008 release (Version 3.5) adds new features like LINQ
- Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a breakthrough technology
that eliminates the impedance mismatch among different data domains. see Somasegar's Weblog
.NET Framework 4 - VS 2010
- C# language gets "dynamic" types. These types are resolved at run time.
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