With the recent announcement of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, it is becoming ever more difficult to keep track of what .NET Framework versions build on what version of the CLR and belong with which version(s) of Visual Studio.
Is there a definative table that shows these relationships?
It's hard to find, isn't it? I believe these are the versions (ignoring service packs)
Visual Studio ver 6 = last one before .Net, released in '98
Visual Studio 2002 = ver 7.1, Rainier, 1st .Net ver. retroactively added 2002 to the name, .Net 1.0 -- released Feb02
Visual Studio 2003 = ver 7, Everett, .Net 1.1 -- released early 2003.
Visual Studio 2005 = ver 8 Whidbey, .Net 2.0 & 3.0 -- launch was Nov 2005. No longer called Visual Studio .Net
Visual Studio 2008 = ver 9 Orcas, .Net 3.5 -- released 11/19/2007 as 9.0.21022.8
Visual Studio 2010 = ver 10 Hawaii
next ver. of Visual Studio Team System = Rosario
This will give you more information about build numbers and service packs, but only through .Net 2.0.
Visual Studio CLR .NET Framework ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual Studio .NET (Ranier) 1.0.3705 1.0 Visual Studio 2003 (Everett) 1.1.4322 1.1 Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) 2.0.50727 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 with .NET 3.0 Extensions 2.0.50727 2.0, 3.0 Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) 2.0.50727 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1, 3.5 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 2.0.50727 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2, 3.5 SP1 Visual Studio 2010 (Hawaii) 4.0.30319 4.0
Expanding on this a bit, and including some of the information from dok1's answer, the actual version numbers for the different shipped builds of the .NET Framework are available on Aaron Stebner's blog, which covers everything from 1.0 through 3.5 SP1.
The actual Visual Studio version numbers are:
Product Name Version Ship Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual Studio .NET 7.0.?? 02/2002 Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1 7.0.?? Visual Studio 2003 7.1.?? 04/2003 Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 7.1.6030 09/13/2006 Visual Studio 2005 8.0.5072.42 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 12/14/2006 Visual Studio 2008 9.0.21022.8 11/19/2007 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 9.0.30729.1 Visual Studio 2010 10.0.30319.1 04/12/2010
Please help fill in the missing pieces. This is all I could easily find online.
Thanks to @DannySmurf for the information on the full version numbers for the CLR.
Addendum to the previous posts:
Not hard to figure out which CLR version (as opposed to .NET version) goes where:
1.0/VS2002 uses 1.0.3705
1.1/VS2003 uses 1.1.4322
2.0/VS2005 uses 2.0.50727
3.0/VS2005 uses 2.0.50727
3.5/VS2008 uses 2.0.50727
It should be noted that VS2008 added the ability to target specific frameworks that build upon the .NET 2.0 runtime (i.e. 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5). Previously it would target the highest version framework supported.
Note that while 3.0 bascially only added new assemblies (same CLR), 3.5 added new assemblies, new compiler, and updated the CLR to SP1 level.
Framework 4.0 will be a whole new CLR (4.0, no CLR 3.x) which will run side-by-side with CLRs 1.1 and 2.0. It will also have all-new assemblies versioned 4.0 instead of using the 2.0 assemblies.
Framework CLR and Assemblies Release ---------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 RTM 1.0.3705.0 Visual Studio .NET (aka VS.NET 2002) 1.0 SP1 1.0.3705.209 1.0 SP2 1.0.3705.288 1.0 SP3 1.0.3705.6018 1.1 RTM 1.1.4322.573 VS.NET 2003 1.1 SP1 1.1.4322.2032 1.1 SP1 1.1.4322.2300 Windows Server 2003 2.0 RTM 2.0.50727.42 VS2005 RTM 2.0 RTM 2.0.50727.312 Windows Vista 2.0 SP1 2.0.50727.1433 VS2008 RTM and .Net 3.5 RTM 2.0 SP2 2.0.50727.3053 VS2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 2.0 SP2 2.0.50727.4016 Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 2.0 SP2 2.0.50727.4927 Windows 7 Framework CLR New assemblies ---------------------------------------------------------- 3.0 RTM 2.0 RTM 3.0.4506.30 The only "out-of-band" non-SP framework release 3.0 SP1 2.0 SP1 3.0.4506.648 VS2008 RTM and .Net 3.5 RTM 3.0 SP2 2.0 SP2 3.0.4506.2123 VS2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 3.5 RTM 2.0 SP1 3.5.21022.8 VS2008 RTM and .Net 3.5 RTM 3.5 SP1 2.0 SP2 3.5.30729.01 VS2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 3.5 SP1 2.0 SP2 3.5.30729.4926 Windows 7 Framework CLR and Assemblies Release ---------------------------------------------------------- 4.0 RTM 4.0.30319.1 VS2010
(Collected from various answers and linked documents, especially this MSDN article linked by DOK) A full list with KB update versions and support retirement dates can be found in Wikipedia.