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mcm reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Oct 9, 2009

ron_marz, this installer does contain 2.0 SP2 through to 3.5 SP1 inclusive. Although DotNet 1.1 is separate and so will 4.0 be when it's released.

TGB72, I've used the full installer perfectly fine on computers with no internet connection (it does attempt to check for updates but doesn't throw an error due to no internet connection). My guess is that you had the DotNet 3.5 installer and when it checked for updates it will have downloaded the SP1 bits.

I do agree that on older computers WPF applications are slow (WinForm apps still seem ok to me), but on newer computers I wouldn't have thought WPF applications were that slow although could still do with some improvement.

ron_marz reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Jan 22, 2009

When will they ever release a build containing version 1 through 3.5 inclusive, so we don't have to install every version sequentially to get to the latest one?

TGB72 reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Dec 8, 2008

The installation is a nightmare.
The full redistributable package is around 197MB and it requires to download another 67MB, so it's not so full and can't be installed in PC without connection.
All the apps that work with .NET run SLOWWWW.
M$ it have no shame at all launching this crap.

Matador477 reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Aug 13, 2008

It's getting slower and slower...

enforcer2k reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Aug 12, 2008

Thank you Banquo!

Users ignorant of what the software is just feel they have to comment because it's from 'Microsoft'! Sheesh. Nice to have some intelligent life around here.

Two thumbs up for this release!!! Much anticipated! The Dynamic Data and AJAX updates will put a smile on my face for a long time to come.... presssents :)

Banquo reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Aug 11, 2008

Nighted, they are packed into one installer. The .NET Framework 3.5 contains all previous versions (except 1.1 which is obsolete), so you only need to install this one file.

ron_marz, there's no point in even responding to your idiotic post.

Paul Skinner reviewed v3.5 Service Pack 1 on Aug 11, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com...b0d7&DisplayLang=en

That's the download page. For the full installer, look at the bottom of the page.
I don't think you'll need 3.5 installed beforehand.

ron_marz reviewed v3.5 SP1 Beta on May 19, 2008

Bloat.

therube reviewed v3.5 SP1 Beta on May 19, 2008

.Net Framework All in One x86 (incl 3.5) *03/30/08*

Nighted reviewed v3.5 on Feb 3, 2008

.NET is great and everything but all these freakin' releases is becoming a bit stupid. How many damn versions do I have to install now? I agree with crashoverride, pack it all into one installer, preferably one that can be easily slipstreamed. I'm getting really, really sick of installing .NET all the time. I love the apps that are possible with it though, so I'm not dissing it, just the lame delivery methods.

TGB72 reviewed v3.5 on Jan 7, 2008

No, it's not the full package and probably need pervious versions and updates installed. You can get the full framework 3.5 (197MB) at
http://download.microsof...42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe

ron_marz reviewed v3.5 on Nov 21, 2007

Is v3.5 self-contained, or does it require that previous versions be installed first?

ssb reviewed v3.5 on Nov 20, 2007

Shiny new version of the best method to build slow and resource hungry applications!

I have no problem when .NET being used for the web; Actually it's great for web programming. But please keep it out from the desktop.

crashoverride reviewed v3.5 on Nov 19, 2007

Yay, yet another .Net to my collection. Hopefully sometime in the future all of this functionality will be combined into a single package under a single version.

elcapitan666 reviewed v3.5 on Nov 19, 2007

Excellent.

anomoly reviewed v3.5 on Nov 19, 2007

Dotnet is just lke windows itself. There's no such thing as a fix or 'update'. You have to add more to an already bloated package. I can't & will never speak for vista simply because I will never use it.
That aside, there are some great aps that will not work without this in windows.
Hilarious how people moan about dotnet but it's really a windows issue isn't it. (even if mono will allow for dotnet aps in linux)

mjm01010101 reviewed v3.5 on Nov 19, 2007

.net framework: Developers love it.

End users groan.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v3.5 Beta 2 on Sep 19, 2007

1 for the reasons explained in length in my 3.0 review.
I eventually had to get a machine with 1.1 AND 2.0 AND 3.0 installed, as three different independent packages, and now 3.5? For xxxx sake, can't they at least make their dang crappy frameworks backward compatible? Or will we need a separate hard drive just for the .Net frameworks redistributables by the time they hit v10?
This is appalling, I can't believe people praise .Net framework redistributables. If at least it was the IDE themselves, and that developers don't give a crap about the burden given to the end users if it can make their job slightly easier, I would be on the verge of understanding. But end users thinking "Great, I already had 1.1 AND 2.0 AND 3.0 installed, and I couldn't wait to have to install 3.5 on top of all the existing crap because I've got 4 different programs using the same concept but with incompatible implementations", I just fail to get it.

photonboy reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 8, 2007

Well coded.

I also will add my two cents. There seem to be a class of people who think that every single program needs to be useful to the average person and if there's only a small group of people who want it the program deserves to be chided.

If you don't know what this is for then don't download it, but certainly watch the comments.

Heaven forbid someone should post a BETA program at... www.betanews.com

Go figure.

darkripper reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 4, 2007

i hate long wait installers

xCodex reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 3, 2007

this is an awesome bit of development and having used LINQ since May 2006 CTP I can say it has saved me a ton of time.

BTW:
Here is BetaNews' supposed policy:
"Foul language, personal attacks, advertisements and repeated, or off topic reviews will not be tolerated."

So, for roj below: would your point of view be considered a personal attack? I have been developing for over 20 years and I do live in the real world - if you can't be a developer then why bother with a post.

roj reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 3, 2007

Unless you specifically have an application that uses this, stay the heck away form this bloatware. Given that there are barely any apps out there (if any) that use it, don't bother until there are...

...in a year.

Devs will gush over this (devs gush over any new toy - they don't live in the real users' world - and some are terrribly thin-skinned aobut it, to boot).

Real users?

Nah.

THREE stars.

mcm reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 3, 2007

The .NET 3 installer does contain version 2 so you can just install v1.1, v3, v3.5.

Rating 5 because of the awesome work gone into LINQ.

horsecharles reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 3, 2007

Install + individually update each one, Ron.

ron_marz reviewed vJune 2007 CTP on Jul 3, 2007

Does version 3.5 contain all the other versions leading up to it, or do I have to install versions 1, 2 and 3 separately before "upgrading" to 3.5?