Framework 1.1 SP1

Are there any potential compatibility issues - backward or forward - that we should be aware of before upgrading our development machines or recommending the upgrade to our customers?

Besides the list of bugfixes there seem to be no breaking changes...
(unless you rely on functionality that has been fixed of course )

Frandsen wrote:

Are there any potential compatibility issues - backward or forward - that we should be aware of before upgrading our development machines or recommending the upgrade to our customers?

I don't know one in particular, but there are bugs in 1.0, so those programs that work around 1.0 bugs might have a problem in 1.1. That's just a speculation in my part, no idea which program does work that way, but I do know that 1.0 had bugs which are fixed in 1.1.

From what I understand Service Packs for the framework are bug fixes only.  I asked the team working on SP3 for 1.0 why they were writing a SP with 1.1 out and 2.0 on the way.  They told me they were committed to supported older versions of the framework and that customer's should'nt have to upgrade to a new framework (with possible breaking changes) because of bugs.  So far, I'm really impressed with the continued work on the .NET framework.  I figured they'd just throw away old versions and not update them.

At our place we installed the thing and tested it with all our inhouse developed apps. Not a single issue was uncovered so we rolled it out to the field.

I would say go for it..