Why do the Utilities require .NET Framework 2.0?

We have just gotten our second contact from a user who was wondering "Why are the Sumatra Utilities built with .NET 2.0?"

A fair question - a few of us here at Sumatra have been frustrated by the additional overhead and complexity that .NET 2.0 entails and yearn for the old version of the Sumatra Utilities which did not require 2.0 (and can be downloaded here). Remember it's a year old, so there is NO /DST switch but the /a for Accepting invitations and the /db for double-booking are there (but in the old version /db only looks 15 days ahead).

So why do we require it?

Security.

As the article New and Improved Security in the .NET Framework 2.0 shows, .NET 2.0 has a much stronger security model, and that was a very hard argument to refute.