Dotnet upgrade - 2.0 to 3.5 - performance

Question

We have a number of winforms apps that are written in dotnet 2.0. Are there any performance upgrades that we would expect when taking transistion to 3.5 runtime? Any particular benefits we will get, besides the language features?

Answer 1

There are probably a few minor performance improvements and bug fixes but the biggest benefit would be the improvements you can gain from the new language features. You can also take advantage of the .NET Client Profile install for your client applications, which is essentially a subset of the .NET Framework that includes the bits that are most relevant to client client applications, which means a smaller download/install size.