Building Your .NET 3.0 Environment 

In Nov 06, the .NET 3.0 framework and many of the components required to build on .NET 3.0 RTM-ed (final release). Here are the links to the bits you need to use or build .NET 3.0 apps. As of Jan 2007, the only bit that is still CTP (not RTM) is the designer tools for WCF / WPF.

Requirements to RUN .NET 3.0 Applications

Component

XP

Vista

.NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components

YES

No

  

Requirements to DEVELOP .NET 3.0 Applications