Because I have some time of in the last few days of this year I was looking for some coding stuff that I could do. To prepare for the (near) future, I decided to try upgrading the EDRA 1.1 bits to .NET framework 2.0. Just because I was curious how much time was involved in upgrading code like this. I installed the latest available release of Visual Studio 2005 and after opening the Reference Architecture solution in VS.NET 2005, the upgrading wizard left me with a little more than 100 errors and warnings. As you can see in the (very) short list below, most of the errors and warnings are because the EDRA bits are using 1.1 .NET framework parts that are obsolete in the .NET framework 2.0.

·          'System.AppDomain.GetCurrentThreadId()' is obsolete: 'AppDomain.GetCurrentThreadId has been deprecated because it does not provide a stable Id when managed threads are running on fibers (aka lightweight threads). To get a stable identifier for a managed thread, use the Thread object returned from Thread.CurrentThread.'

·          'System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader' is obsolete: 'Use XmlReader created by XmlReader.Create() method using appropriate XmlReaderSettings instead. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202

·          'System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform' is obsolete: 'Use System.Xml.Query.XsltCommand instead.

After a few hours of coding and searching the Visual Studio 2005 online documentation this is how (part of) my laptop screen looked like:  

I haven’t done any testing yet, I will do that the next coming days. But he.... at least it compiles!