After installing the MAY CTP of LINQ, the refactoring menus in VS2005 stopped working. I use that a lot, so I either had to find a way to fix it or uninstall LINQ! I found a post on the MSDN forums that solves the problem. There is a registry entry you must change along with running a few commands from the command line. I have zipped up two files that will make the process a little easier.

Fix_Refactoring_Menu.zip (.7 KB)

There is a reg file and a cmd file contained in the zip file. You may need to edit the contents if you have installed Visual Studio somewhere besides the default location.

From S. "Soma" Somasegar's blog:

"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".
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"We 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."

Are you kidding me? You really think this will reduce confusion? If the next version of the compilers is not going to be ready when Vista and all the W*Fs ship, then just keep the name WinFX for now. When C# 3.0 is ready, upgrade the whole thing and call it .NET Framework 3.0 if you must. Much less confusing if you ask me.

And as for the question, "WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?" It amazes me that any developer has been asking that. If they can't understand that, their heads are going to explode with all this version mix-matching business.