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>>>>All your VS2005 apps will run perfectly in VS2008. There is no down side for that upgrade unlike some earlier upgrades. It is like getting free stuff with no obligation or cost. I work on all my apps in VS2008 including the ones that are still running on Dot net 2.0. I suffered a long time from the upgrade to VS2005 but VS2008 did not show a single problem. I use lots of third party products that all have to be compatible. VS2008 (Dot Net 3.5) is built on top of Dot net 2.0 so no suffering.
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>>>Thank you for your input. But how can it be "no cost." Isn't VS 2008 a paid upgrade?
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>>Yes, I wasn't actually referring to money; just the application and programming cost. Sorry bout that chief
>>Tim
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>No problem, Tim. Thank you for clarifying. For a second I thought that MS was giving away something free <g>. And I will probably upgrade to VS 2008 at some point.
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>But if I could ask you the following question, please. If you have to maintain an ASP.NET project developed initially on .NET 2.0 in VS 2005, and then you move this project to VS 2008, will it work? That is, I would not want my customers to necessarily install .NET 3.5 and that they would continue running my application under .NET 2.0.

Yes, VS2008 lets you leave the target framework at 2.0 with no headache. That was why I moved all my apps directly to VS2008 so I only had to open and use one version.
Tim