The .NET Framework 2.0 Prereleases

This book is based on prerelease versions of .NET Framework 2.0. At the time of this writing, the latest publicly available prerelease is the October Community Technology Preview. I expect there will be a few more Community Technology Previews and at least one more beta before the final version of .NET Framework 2.0 is released. The October Community Technology Preview can be downloaded from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/default.aspx.

Because I've written this book based on prereleased software, you might find some differences between what I've written here and the final version of the product. I don't expect significant design changes to occur between now and the final release, but some small differences might appear as the new .NET Framework 2.0 APIs are finalized because the team has responded to customer feedback.