Hi all,
I am actually considering downloading and installing the Visual Studio Express 2005 suite of programs, as I am already been working with .Net for the last 2 years, and the 2005 specs look enticing.
I'm a student, and a junior developer for the firm that I work for, and both at school and at work we are still using .Net 2003. Now my question is: Will installing the .NET framework 2.0 (which is required for operating VS.NET 2005) affect my VS.NET 2003 I'm asking this as lately I've been checking the MSDN help for the .NET 2.0, and a whole load of new functionalities seem to have been implemented, some of which were not available with both 1.1 and VS.NET 2003. If I upgrade will these new functionalities be available in .NET 2003

.Net framework 2.0 question (noob question be warned!)
jp singh
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Breck Carter
Installing the .NET 2.0 framework should not affect any previous versions. It was designed to run side by side with older versions. If there is a breaking change in a new framework version any software using the older version will still run since they are hardwired to use a specific framework version.
This also means that upgrading will not give any new features to applications using the old framework version.