As some of you know, Microsoft released VS2008 (RTM) and .NET Framework 3.5 yesterday. I have great news in terms of umbraco v3 and those bits - It compiles and runs perfectly with very few changes :-)

In .NET 3.5 a new delegate named Action is introduced, which means that it clashes with the class named Action in umbraco. It's not a bigger issue than a need to fully qualify the name five places in the umbraco source.

I've been testing this on my Vista box and it runs perfectly including Warrens website starter package and included XSLTs and controls like Douglas Robars excellent XSLT Search.

This is very good news as it makes the transition to .NET 3.5 much easier and faster (we're actually there!) than with umbraco 2.1 -> 3.0.

Let me know your take on this and if we should have two official distributions, one for .NET 2.0 and one for .NET 3.5.

Cheers,
Niels...

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Jeeeez, did I really start this :-)

I think it is a great idea to have two distributions for some time. Then perhaps by the release of Umbraco 4, you could phase out .NET 2.0 compatibility?
I can only speak for myself, but we are not quite ready to upgrade our servers yet.

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I'm the closest thing to an Umbraco-hangaround

I'm in favor of a single version that works everywhere (or at least, a single version).

Is it possible to compile to .net2, but with the fully qualified code that makes it run under .net35?

Just like with umbraco v2.x, even though it was a .net1.1 application, you could run it under .net2... so I would like umbraco v3.? to be a .net2 application that can run under .net3/35.

Am I asking too much?

Otherwise, support for .net3/.net35 should be held for later. It will take a while before it is common to have that version of .net installed on servers, especially shared hosts. So moving to a .net3/35 solution too early will cause a lot of pain for people.

cheers,
doug.

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MVP 2007-2009 - Official Umbraco Trainer for North America - Percipient Studios

The famous 4GuysFromRolla.com released an article yesterday giving an Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

It answered a lot of my question on what the fuzz is all about :)

/SoerenS

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Brug for råd til hvordan du driver en god webshop? / Need advice on how to run an effective webshop?

It would still be possible :)

I'll do some performance testing on 3.5 vs. 2.0 and see if it makes sense to have two builds. However, the code base will be the same - no new 3.5 specific features will be added. It simply meant as a service for people who can run 3.5 on their hosts (if it will increase performance).

/n

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Jeeeez, did I really start this :-)

Lets see a 3.5 compile really soon..... need it bad. Tried to compile it myself but cant seam to get the correct changeset. Membership provider is so linked it the ones I tried. Running a 3.5 complie with 3.5 user controls frontend and backend. Runs great except some troubles with Umbraco stuff like the new memebership stuff.. Ie cant save user type and language from Umbraco backend, have to hack db to achive it and so on. Also seam to get some trouble with ajax in the treeview when switched to the new ajax framework that is included in 3.5.

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