Hi Bill,
You know it's such a sad state of affairs that Microsoft can't get versioning to work on this stuff even now. .NET is supposed to be able to do side by side installation seamlessly yet I have yet to see a Microsoft installation actually work that way. Here I was attending a session on versioning at Code Camp this weekend with all the options available, yet Microsoft apparently doesn't like to apply their own rules to versioning. It should be perfectly possible to have side by side installs of all these in between framework versions without clobbering the entire system.
You know it's such a sad state of affairs that Microsoft can't get versioning to work on this stuff even now. .NET is supposed to be able to do side by side installation seamlessly yet I have yet to see a Microsoft installation actually work that way. Here I was attending a session on versioning at Code Camp this weekend with all the options available, yet Microsoft apparently doesn't like to apply their own rules to versioning. It should be perfectly possible to have side by side installs of all these in between framework versions without clobbering the entire system.
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