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haha good call ;-) I was going to suggest http://blogs.msdn.com/walterst/archive/2006/11/07/net-framework-3-0-has-been-released.aspx

Yeah, I figured the netfx community was the original...

Although, I don't really see the point in 3.0... not a lot of people have even switched to 2.0 yet. Now I'm reading things about 3.5... at least Microsoft is finally moving things along.

I guess Vista will give the 3.x series a shot in the arm (so glad they dropped WinFX). What with Vista and XNA, Microsoft based development is getting really interesting these days :-)

Has anyone found a "what's new in 3.0" document anywhere?!

Has the syntax changed? Are there new classes, methods, hierarchy changes?

Some of the biggest changes include the addition of Windows Communication Foundation (formerly Indigo), Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon) and Windows Workflow Foundation (formerly WinFX). These were originally intended to be separate components, and were rolled into .NET Fx 3.0

From the site:

"It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with four new technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows CardSpace (WCS, formerly “InfoCard”). "

Looks like they just added a bunch of new libraries on top of 2.0.

In real terms, the .NET 3.0 release is the 2.0 core classes with the the old WinFX bells and whistles tossed in. I agree with Lowell....