In the last few weeks and months, there have been a lot of questions about our timeline to add support for the .NET 2 framework in SmartInspect. We therefore tested the current SmartInspect .NET library with the Beta 2 of .NET 2 and it turned out that it already works fine without changing anything (it passes the entire test suite). However, two things caused us to delay the official support until the release of the upcoming SmartInspect 1.2 version:
- Before officially supporting the .NET 2 framework we want to test the SmartInspect .NET library with the final .NET 2 release (expected in early November).
- The SmartInspect 1.1 .NET library uses two API calls which are obsolete in .NET 2. We therefore decided to provide two different assemblies in the future, one for .NET 1 and one for .NET 2.
I’ve been working on the last point in the last few days. As it turned out, the changes in the library itself have been quite simple. The problematic part, or the part which took a lot more effort, has been the IDE integration. But more about that in a future posting.
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Hi Tobias,
It seems that we’ll have VS 2005 RTM On October 14th i.e. a few days before its official launch. More on it here http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=122324#122324
Cheers
Hi Gabriel,
that’s interesting. Might be that SmartInspect 1.2 will now be released earlier, too. Thanks for telling me.