.NET Framework 3.0 has been released!

JDMurray

The .NET Framework 3.0 was officially released on November 21, 2006. Although this release sees an increase in .NET's major version number, it's really just a superset of functionality added to .NET 2.0, making it more of a .NET 2.1 release. See the .NET 3.0 Readme page for more details,

You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here for Windows Server 2003 (SP1), Windows XP (SP2), and Windows Vista systems that already have .NET 2.0 installed:

.NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en

Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F54F5537-CC86-4BF5-AE44-F5A1E805680D&displaylang=en

.NET Framework 3.0 Readme available here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/relnotes/netfx3/default.aspx

If you have a CTP pre-release of WinFX 3.0 installed, be sure to review the uninstall instructions here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AAE7FC63-D405-4E13-909F-E85AA9E66146&displaylang=en

bcairns

nice post - thanks

JDMurray

I didn't have a problem installing .NET 3.0 on my systems at work, but on my home system the update wanted to uninstall my SQL Server 2005 development environment, so I aborted it. I've never installed a beta of WinFx on my home system, but some of its components might have snuck on in a SQL Server 2005 update.

bcairns

jdmurray wrote:

I didn't have a problem installing .NET 3.0 on my systems at work, but on my home system the update wanted to uninstall my SQL Server 2005 development environment, so I aborted it. I've never installed a beta of WinFx on my home system, but some of its components might have snuck on in a SQL Server 2005 update.

Had the same issue ...will try it later on a virtual computer to see how bad things are.