Mon, February 12, 2007, 01:23 PM under
MobileAndEmbedded
The next version number of the .NET Compact Framework is 3.5, compared to version number 2.0 that ships today. This is so the version numbers can align with v3.5 of the full framework (NetFx3.5). You can play with NETCF 3.5 in the
Orcas Jan CTP.
Below is some new NETCF stuff that I found (v3.5.6282.0):
* Remember the
EventWaitHandle class that I wrote 2 years ago? It is now part of the compact framework (
System.Threading). As part of the addition, the inheritance hierarchies have changed so
AutoResetEvent and
ManualResetEvent now inherit from
EventWaitHandle and not
WaitHandle (making
this blog entry half-obsolete :)).
* Remember the
Stopwatch class that I wrote? It is now in the CF (
System.Diagnostics).
* The
Array class get the
Resize method and some new
Sort overloads.
* The
CompilerGeneratedAttribute class from the
System.Runtime.CompilerServices namespace is now added.
* The
SerializationException class from the
System.Runtime.Serialization namespace is added.
* System.Text.
StringBuilder gets a new overload for the
AppendFormat method and also both overloads of the
AppendLine method.
* The System.Threading.
Thread class gets the static
MemoryBarrier method.
* The
String class now contains the
Contains method.
* A whole bunch of classes get a
public Dispose method including
GraphicsStream,
FileStream,
MemoryStream,
StreamReader,
StreamWriter,
StringReader,
StringWriter,
TextReader,
TextWriter and others.
* To support the next addition, the
InvalidDataException class is added to the
System.IO namespace in System.dll
* We get the entire
System.IO.Compression namespace (i.e.
GZipStream,
DeflateStream,
CompressionMode) from the System.dll
* Relevant to the previous addition, there is a new enum
System.Net.DecompressionMethods that is the type of the new property
AutomaticDecompression on the
HttpWebRequest class.
* We get the entire
System.Media namespace (
SoundPlayer,
SystemSound,
SystemSounds) from the System.dll
* Mainly to support the previous addition, we get two classes in the
System.ComponentModel namespace:
AsyncCompletedEventArgs and
AsyncCompletedEventHandler.
* The
Trace class from the
System.Diagnostics namespace only had 3 overloads of the
Assert method. Now it becomes much more useful with 4 overloads for each of the methods
Write,
WriteIf,
WriteLine and
WriteLineIf. It also gets the
Fail,
Flush and
Close methods. Add to that the new
TextWriterTraceListener and tracing looks much better overall in NETCF v3.5
Stay tuned for more coming this week...