Hi *,
as the new .NET 4 will be out soon I have couple of thoughts for
further development. Feel free to express your POVs as I definitely
don't know all corners where .NET provider is used.
1. Dropping .NET 2.0 support.
The .NET 3.0 and mainly .NET 3.5 is just update for .NET 2.0. There's
no new runtime or changes in bases. So there's no risk installing this
update. This step will provide us option to use new features and make
the code more clean and probably also faster. Taking into account
limited resources project has, this will also allow focus more on new
features.
Until the official .NET 4 release there will be still support for .NET
2.0. But not after it.
Builds for .NET 3.5 and .NET 4 will be provided on site as now.
2. CSC 4 will be the official compiler.
New compiler means (maybe) better code. New features and syntactic
sugars means faster development. You don't need to build provider
yourself so you are not affected by this. If you're building it
yourself you don't need VS2010 to install. Just use CSC thru
cmd/MSBuild and you're fine.
[1]
3. Switching the solution(s) to VS2010.
With 2. this is pretty obvious. As you're safe with us using new
compiler, this is more true for new IDE.
[1]
What I don't know is whether there's some demand on VS2005 DDEX
support dropping and extending support for new stuff in VS2008. VS2008
adds some really minor features, as far as I remember when checking
it, so it's probably not worth doing it. But maybe you have different
opinion.
The development overall will be still focused on new ADO.NET (incl.
EF) features support as well as features in new FB engine versions.
[1] AFAIK the core guys have plans to switch to VS2010/C++ as official
compiler for engine too. :D
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Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com)
http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com
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