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.NET Framework Version Comparison Table
2012-05-01 04:05:13 Jinal Desai

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It is frequent usage to see all the .NET Version with its features on one page. While surfing on net it is difficult to find or even not a single site provides all version on one plate with features. Following is a try to put all the .NET Framework versions together with other release and features details.

Visual Default Version Release CLR Studio in No. Date Version Version Windows
1.0 13 Feb 2002 Visual Studio .NET NA 1.0

Features in Release
First Version of CLR and Base Class Library 1. First Major version of .NET Framework 2. Built-in support for mobile ASP.NET controls. Previously available as an add-on for .NET Framework, now part of the framework 3. Security changes enable Windows Forms assemblies to execute in a semi-trusted manner from the Internet, and enable Code Access Security in ASP.NET applications 4. Built-in support for ODBC and Oracle databases. Previously available as an

1.1

24 Apr 2003

Visual Studio 2003

Windows Server 2003

1.1

add-on for .NET Framework 1.0, now part of the framework 5. .NET Compact Framework a version of the .NET Framework for small devices 6. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support 1. Generics 2. Language support for generics built directly into the .NET CLR 3. Full 64-bit support for both the x64 and the IA-64 hardware platforms 4. SQL Server integration .NET 2.0, VS 2005, and SQL Server 2005 are all tied together. This means that instead of using T-SQL, one can build stored procedures and triggers in any of the .NET-compatible languages 5. A new hosting API for native applications wishing to host an instance of the .NET runtime. The new API gives a fine grain control on the behavior of the runtime with regards to multithreading, memory allocation, assembly loading and more 2.0 6. Many additional and improved ASP.NET web controls 7. New data controls with declarative data binding 8. New personalization

2.0

7 Nov 2005

Visual Studio 2005

Windows Server 2003 R2

features for ASP.NET, such as support for themes, skins, master pages and webparts 9. .NET Micro Framework a version of the .NET Framework related to the Smart Personal Objects Technology initiative 10. Membership provider 11. Partial classes 12. Nullable types 13. Anonymous methods 14. Iterators 15. Data tables 1. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and vector graphics, which uses 3D computer graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies 2. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a serviceoriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services 3. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) allows for building of task automation and integrated transactions using workflows 4. Windows CardSpace, a software component which securely stores a persons digital identities and provides

3.0

6 Nov 2006

Visual Studio 2005

Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

2.0

a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website 1. Added new features such as AJAX-enabled Web sites and LINQ 2.0, 2.0 2. Source code of Base Class SP1, 3.0 Library (BCL) has been SP1 partially released 3. New .NET Compact Framework 3.5 released 1. .NET Framework Client Profile 2. Dynamic Data 3. Two new data service components added, ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services 4. Two new assemblies for web development, System.Web.Abstraction and System.Web.Routing 5. New set of controls Visual Basic Power Packs introduced 1. New Version of CLR 2. Parallel Extensions to improve support for parallel computing, which target multicore or distributed systems. To this end, technologies like PLINQ (Parallel LINQ), a parallel implementation of the LINQ engine, and Task Parallel Library, which exposes parallel constructs via method calls are included 3. New Visual Basic .NET and

3.5

19 Nov 2007

Visual Studio 2008

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

11 Aug 3.5 SP1 2008

Visual Studio 2008

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

3.0 SP2

4.0

12 Apr 2010

Visual Studio 2010

C# language features, such as implicit line continuations, dynamic dispatch, named parameters, and optional parameters NA 4.0 4. Code Contracts 5. Inclusion of new types to work with arbitrary-precision arithmetic (System.Numerics.BigInteger) and complex numbers (System.Numerics.Complex) 6. Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) 7. Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 8. Windows Server AppFabric for application server capabilities in the form of AppFabric hosting and inmemory distributed caching support 1. Windows Store Apps 2. The Portable Class Library project in Visual Studio 2012 3. Background Garbage Collection Servers

4.5

15 Aug 2012

Visual Studio 2012

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

4.5

4. Asynchronous File Operations 5. Regex Timeout 6. Profile Optimization Improved Startup Performance 7. Zip Compression 8. Async and Await Code Markers

References .NET Framework on Wikipedia .NET Framework Versions and Dependencies on MSDN .NET Framework Version Comparison Table 5.00 / 5 5 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5
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