What happens when the framework vanishes?

This is a response/comment to Richard’s blog entry about 3 Things to Learn from LINQ to SQL

How many times have you done work based on a particular technology only to have it vanish or be completely incompatible in the next release?

You don’t want to know how many “legacy” apps I have to support that only work in 2003 and .NET 1.1 because the library or two I used is no longer available or is completely in compatible. Continue reading