The upcoming release of .NET 5 introduces many breaking changes. While the vast majority of them involve edge cases or previously incorrect behavior, some may take developers by surprise. In the first of this multi-part series, InfoQ looks at the Base Class Library.
.NET Version Information
It may seem foolish, but a lot of developers have a bad habit of looking at the string representation of the version instead of the numeric form. This led to the infamous “Windows 9” story where Microsoft skipped from Windows 8 to Windows 10 to avoid problems in applications that were looking for Windows 95/98.
