New Web Application
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previously all our projects have been written in VB.NET in VS.NET 2003 for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework; however, we are about to start a new web project and we are trying to decide whether it is worth doing it with VS.NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0... All of us developers (2 of us) want to do this, but we need to have some Content Management, and since we are heavily Microsoft based we were going to use MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server) 2002. The problem is that this product is pretty old, and to get it working with VS.NET 2003 we had to install patches and workarounds. In short it was not pretty, and we are pretty sure we can't do the same for VS.NET 2005. Basically, I don't know where to go from here. I need advice. 1) Is it worth the move, for a new application, to ASP.NET v2.0 (I think it is) 2) What Content Management System works best with this? /jason -- modified at 3:00 Friday 28th October, 2005
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previously all our projects have been written in VB.NET in VS.NET 2003 for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework; however, we are about to start a new web project and we are trying to decide whether it is worth doing it with VS.NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0... All of us developers (2 of us) want to do this, but we need to have some Content Management, and since we are heavily Microsoft based we were going to use MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server) 2002. The problem is that this product is pretty old, and to get it working with VS.NET 2003 we had to install patches and workarounds. In short it was not pretty, and we are pretty sure we can't do the same for VS.NET 2005. Basically, I don't know where to go from here. I need advice. 1) Is it worth the move, for a new application, to ASP.NET v2.0 (I think it is) 2) What Content Management System works best with this? /jason -- modified at 3:00 Friday 28th October, 2005
I use asp.net 2.0 (and in general .net 2.0) for work and I have been working with it for 4 months; in my personal opinion I think that it IS definately the move: -asp.net 2.0 is much more mature then 1.1, it's better designed (behaviours of everything are always clear) and allows more reuse of code (you won't have anymore that workaround feeling you get from 1.1 when doing something different from a cart) -it allows standard compliance and the designer won't mess up all your code -you can upload and release just part of the website and you don't have to upload the whole binary (usefull when someone is working on other features and is still not done) -better usage of web user controls, you can finally use properties and events programmatically of a web user control added with the designer (in the old version you had to add the control yourself in a placeholder to do this), this allows great encapsulation -- modified at 6:13 Friday 28th October, 2005