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    <p>Making the jump from VS2003 and .NET 1.1 to at the very least VS2005 and .NET 2.0 is well worth the price of admission. Later versions of the .NET Framework after 2.0 seem to be all additive. No or not very many breaking .NET class libraries. They just added new namespaces and classes. VS2008 and from what I understand later versions coming down the pipeline will all support backward compatibility back to .NET 2.0. This makes upgrading your IDE almost trivial (I think you have to convert the projects to the VS2008 project types) and you get the benefits of new IDE enhancements while still using the older versions of the framework. Some of the bigger things that I remember that I enjoy just from VS2008 IDE are the split view when working in ASP .NET, the new CSS windows, and javascript intellisense (VS2008 SP1 I believe on this feature).</p> <p>Just from personal experience, we did have some issues with Active Reports. We had to upgrade versions of that to work with the new IDE/framework and when we moved from VS2008 from VS2005, some our SSIS package projects didn't open correctly because we are still on SQL Server 2005, so definitely check any dependencies you have on your 2003 IDE with any 3rd party apps you may be running.</p> <p>Ralphondo is correct though and I would up vote him if I had the rep. Generics are a game changer for sure and prevent you from having to create typed collections on your own to have type safety. Seriously.... google search what you have to do in .NET 1.1 vs later versions. The difference is night and day.</p>
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