Visual Studio 2008 support for new .NET 4

Question

Will Visual Studio 2008 be supported by new .NET 4 from the get go?

I\'m particularly interested in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and the parallel task

Answer 1

While you can't use .NET 4.0 itself from VS2008, if you're interested in the Parallel Extensions stuff, you could download the Reactive Framework (formerly LINQ to Rx) which I believe contains at least a lot of Parallel Extensions backported to .NET 3.5 SP1.

From the Release Notes, it includes:

System.Threading, backport of Parallel Extensions for .NET 4 to .NET 3.5 SP1

• Task for executing asynchronous operations.
• Concurrent Collections such as ConcurrentStack, ConcurentQueue ad ConcurrentDictionary.
• PLINQ for writing parallel queries.
• addition Threading operations such as Barrier,SpinLock and SpinWait.