Installing .NET Framework 1.1 after 1.0

[Daspoo]

Hi. If anyone has any answers or insight into this, it would be MOST appreciated. Right now, my computer has Visual Studio.NET installed (2002?? - it says "Microsoft Development Environment 2002") with .NET Framework 1.0 SDK installed on it. I just installed the 1.1 Redistributable Package and .NET Framework 1.1 SDK this afternoon. One of the reasons I did so was to be able to use the new System.Data.OracleClient namespace and children available in 1.1 to connect to an Oracle database in a web application.

However, when I create a new project in VS.NET (ASP.NET Web Application for VB.NET), that namespace is not available to me; and going to the Help menu of VS.NET and looking at "About Microsoft Visual Basic.NET", it still shows the old .NET Framework version (1.0.3705) instead of the newly-installed 1.1.

Is there something Im missing here? Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

IIRC Visual Studio.Net 2002 only targets the 1.0 framework, you will need to upgrade to VS.Net 2003 to be able to compile against the 1.1 Framework.

 

[Daspoo]

So that basically means that 2002 wont recognize any of the code used in 1.1 then? So Im basically left with either getting VS.NET 2003 or using 1.0 (for the time being) and downloading the "extras" I want to use with 2002 (i.e., Oracle connectivity availability, Mobile Internet Toolkit, etc.), huh? Thanks, Plaus, for the quick response!

 

[NK2000]

is that true? i got 2002 version and installed 1.1 sdk but i think i would get an error if i compile 1.1 on 2002 if that is really true, but i am not certain about my answer..

 

[Daspoo]

Yep...

Yep, from what Ive recently read (and based on my previous question), you wont be able to compile apps using .NET Framework 1.1 in VS.NET 2002. Looks like were both in a similar boat.

 

[NK2000]

hm but i thought the compiler is independent from the studio

 

[Daspoo]

Just going by what PlausiblyDamp indicated above. That and this page...http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/technologyinfo/versioncomparison/default.aspx (and its corresponding link(s))

 

[NK2000]

ok thanks

 

[mocella]

You can always just compile your project from the command line and that way get the 1.1 framework.

My build machine has VS2002 and 1.1SDK and our Nant scripts compile at 1.1 framework just fine.

Although if you cant see the namespace you might as well just code you classes in UltraEdit or something after you use VS2002 to design your forms.

Any reason you cant upgrade to 2003 and run side-by-side installs? I recall the upgrade being fairly cheap.

 

[NK2000]

or that sharp develop ide..

 

[rustyd]

Update Framework to 1.1

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