Stable enough for real use?

Is .NET stable enough yet to deploy real Windows 32 apps to real customers?

Anybody doing this?

Any 'gottchas' to watch out for?

We think we are ready to do this, but would be interested to hear other opinions. (Ok, we're chicken!)

Thanks!

i dont believe so
right now they are on beta 2
to develop something with a beta, especially making a real applicaton is risky (as they change the coding syntax, and style in betas)
i would wait until the final is out
well i am waiting til the final is out :)

IMHO

I think the final is coming out soon; the framework is already available for free download at http://msdn.microsoft.com .

framework has been out since the first beta

We've been developing a .net app for several months. It will be ready this side of christmas, but we'll be waiting until the full release is out before releasing our product.

We don't expect much difference between Beta2 and the Full Release. Just some increased preformance and such.

Don't deploy beta versions! Cannot stress this enough. The final release version can and will have completely different things in it. Also deploying to pre-XP OS could cause ya a lot of grief....needing a whole host of additional files etc.

unless they have changed things reciently, it is illegal to make apps with beta 1 or 2, or RC1 and sell them. I think you can get explicit permission from them to distribute an app though.

I supposed you could write your code, wait for the release version and compile with that.

From all I have heared, your existing Beta 2 code should have no problems with full release since most changes are bug fixes and performance issues to Visual Studio since the .NET Framework is pretty much complete. May have some additions to the Framework, but probably no changes to how you code.

Also realize that the state of Visual Studio does not reflect on the
Framework. The Framework is independent of Visual Studio and becuase of this you dont need Visual Studio at all. You can write it in textpad or notepad or any text editor. Just use the command line compiler that comes with the Framework and your all done. But of course VS makes mking GUI apps much easier.