If You Have Not Upgraded From .NET 1.1, You Need To NOW!
Mainstream support for .NET 1.1 is retiring on October 14, 2008. What this means is if you have not installed at least Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 by now, you really need to. Yes you can buy an extended support contract for mega bucks, but seriously how long are you going to stake your business on an aging platform like 1.1. The current version of .NET is now 3.5 SP1. That means there have been a ton of updates, upgrades and bug fixes since 2002. You are also missing out on some great advances in technology in the past 6 years. You will also find it harder and harder to find programmers to maintain your application because any programmer worth their salt will not want to work with an old platform because they will be risking their personal future.
So please head my advice and upgrade finally .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 and 3.5 SP1 is free and it works great. It won’t bite you, I promise.