If you are interested in the Entity Framework like I am you will not find the installation process very straight forward. I started searching for the Entity Framework (EF) and I was receiving links to pages containing Tools, Designers, Frameworks with lots of acronyms. If I want to try something out I'm used to search for it, download it, install it, and play with it. Apparently the EF is not like that (at least for now). There is a lot of history to it. John Papa who has been following the EF for a while and who has also interested me on...
You have a 2.0/3.0 .NET application that you have been working for a while, but you do not want to have VS 2005 installed as well as 2008. The problem is the other members of your team do not want to get rid of 2005 and converting the application to 3.5 is not an option. What do you do?
With previous versions of Visual Studio the developer had to use the version of the .NET framework that was tied to Visual Studio. So if you wanted to work with VS 2005 the application was going to compile for .NET 2.0/3.0, VS...