Did you ever have to persuade your customers that migrating your ASP.NET web forms application from 2.0 to 3.5 is necessary?
Why customers should install a new framework? (and sometimes a new operating system – there are a lot of Windows 2000 machines out there although support for it ended in 2010).
Which advantages for them?
- Security?
- Performances?
- Costs?
Is the only reason that 2.0 is old?
Any link is appreciated.
PS:
Please don’t answer that 3.5 has LINQ, it’s an advantage for developers not customers
The advantage here is indirectly for the customer, by (hopefully) allowing you to write code faster/shorter and therefore fewer bugs and more deadlines hit.
There may also be small performance increases with the newer iterations of the franmework.