WinFX=.Net 3.0!
June 10th, 2006 by 
Patrick S
When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, “WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?” .NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world. Developers know and love .NET.
The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the newly christened Windows CardSpace (WCS) formerly known under the codename “InfoCard.” The brand also created an unnatural discontinuity between previous versions of our framework and the current version.
With this in mind Microsoft have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework.
The change is in name only and will not affect the technologies being delivered as part of the product. The .NET Framework 3.0 is still comprised of the existing .NET Framework 2.0 components, including ASP.NET, WinForms, ADO.NET, additional base class libraries and the CLR, as well as new developer-focused innovative technologies in WPF, WCF, WF and WCS:
The .NET Framework 3.0 will still ship with Windows Vista, and will be available down-level for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as planned. This change doesn’t affect in any way the ship schedules of either Windows Vista or the .NET Framework 3.0 itself.
Microsoft are confident that this change will go a long way towards reducing confusion people may have about our developer platform and the technologies in which they should invest.
Source staight from Somasegars MSDN blog
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12 Comments »
June 10th, 2006 at 6:04 am
gr8! So now we have 2 WCSes. Windows CardSpace and Windows Color System. Why dont they rename everything else too! Windows Start button, Windows Notepad, Windows Search (so that it can be nicely confused with Windows Live Search which are already 2 of them), Windows DirectX….could go on and on and on…someone give MS naming lessons.
June 10th, 2006 at 7:28 am
[...] Checking out MSBlog (great site for tacking techo Microsoft stuff at btw ) they appear to answer one of Nic’s questions about if the name change will mean a new version of the framework with LINQ and other goodies – the answer appears to be no. It will be built on the .Net 2.0 framework and looks to just add the pillars of WinFX. [...]
June 10th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
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June 10th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
That is sooo much better! I haven’t really looked into WinFX much, but I wasn’t expecting it to become the new .Net…. definitely will make me pay more attention to it in the future. Thanks Patrick!
June 10th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
So when and how did .NET become the most successful developer framework? I am quite curious. Is it fact or just a little bit of literary freedom?
June 10th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Ha Ha Anonymous…If you say so,
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With regard to Surya this is from an MSDN blog so ofcouse they are going to rate their product (it will be an awesome framework anyway
June 12th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Oh. “WinFX” sounded so much cooler.
June 12th, 2006 at 5:10 am
Well, I did not expect that it is called .NET 3.0, I thought that it will be released as .NET 2.1 or .NET 2.x
Now it is confused as this .NET 3.0 is using .NET 2.0 CLR…….
June 12th, 2006 at 5:14 am
Well, I did not expect that WinFX will be called .NET 3.0, I thought that it will be released as .NET 2.1 or .NET 2.x
Now it is confused as this .NET 3.0 is using .NET 2.0 CLR……
And now, Microsoft is already changed all the site to be name as .NET 3.0
June 12th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Oh so they have…now its official
June 14th, 2006 at 10:50 am
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August 10th, 2006 at 3:03 am
It’s a short-sighted misnomer. There’s no better way to describe it. It’s going to mess up future versions.
http://www.petitiononline.com/winfx/petition.html