A few questions regarding Whidbey Beta 2

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Hi all.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this. If it's not, I'm truly sorry. I have a couple of questions regarding Whidbey (VS.NET 2005) Beta 2.

1. Is it safe to install it on my production machine? Working in a Virtual PC is a PITA. It would be installed side by side with VS.NET 2003. Horror stories? Tips and tricks regarding this?

2. Say I reference an assembly (ie: 3rd party component) that was compiled with .NET 1.1 in a .NET 2.0 project. Will this 1.1 assembly run against the 1.1 or 2.0 framework? Is it safe to reference v1.1 assemblies?

3. When I install the .NET Framework 2.0 on a clean machine (ie: no .NET 1.x installed), does it also install v1.0 and v1.1 of the framework? Say the answer to question #2 is that it runs against version 1.1 of the framework, am I required to install BOTH versions of the framework on my customers machines?

Thanks a lot for your help!
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