is it possible: C# 2.0 in .NET 2003?

[the one]

I want to use Generics in C#, so I want to write in C# 2.0.
However my IDE is .NET 2003, so it includes previous version of C#.
How can I install and adopt C# 2.0 into my .NET 2003 IDE?

Thanks.

[darwen]

No, you can't.

Darwen.

[SouthernCodeMonkey]

Greetings.

As Darwin pointed out, .NET 2003 cannot use a higher version than 1.1.

You can, however, invoke the 2.0 compiler using a post build event against your project sources. This isn't integration, but with a little effort you can make it work.

Regards.

[Jason Isom]

C#.NET 2005 is available free to download at. Although, it's in beta so you may have to deal with some of the bugs.

I absolutely love it so far.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/expres...p/default.aspx

[Corellian]

You may not even need to use a post-build event. I believe exchanging your csc.exe's is all that is necessary. However, IDE support (like intellisense and syntax highlighting) are indeed impossible.