The .NET Compact Framework Quality Assurance Team signed off on V2 yesterday. We've been working on this for a long time and I'm excited to get this thing shipped. Soon.

The thing we have been working hard on for the last few months is compatibility. We want customers to deploy the next version widely, and key here is to provide both enough new value and to make sure they have a pleasant upgrade experience. I think our performance gains alone will be reason to upgrade, in addition to the new APIs we expose. We have an automation harness that uses reflection against our assemblies to validate that we are in sync with the .NET Framework on Windows. We also run a compatibility test suite to validate that our behavior is compatible. Both of these are necessary starting points, but the only way to really succeed is to test real world applications.

To that end, we have assembled, with your help, a catalog of about 600 application. We've manually tested about half of them, covering a wide range of application types and complexity, and have fixed all but a handful of really tough problems. This has been the last dashboard that we've been watching closely and I'm happy that it says we're ready.

And you've been telling us that we're ready too. Thanks