3.5 Status, Getting Started With, etc?

dpetrancuri posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008

Greetings Rocky et al!

Can you please tell me that status of CSLA .NET 3.5 and how soon you expect it to be out of beta?

Also, can you suggest a path for getting started with 3.5? Should we start with the Doing BO book from Apress and then supplement it with 2.1 and 3.0 eBooks?

I really want to get cranking on a new app using 3.5.

Thank you for your learned response and on-going contributions to the .NET developer community.

Respectully,

Darryll

RockfordLhotka replied on Sunday, March 16, 2008

I expect 3.5 to be out of beta in early to mid-April. So in 2-4 weeks basically. Several people/organizations on this forum are using Beta 2 and are providing some awesome feedback (thank you guys!!!), and I want to allow enough time for them (or you, if you'd like) to find any major issues so I can address them.

In terms of getting started, the "Expert 2008 Business Objects" book is scheduled for a September release - which is a ways out... But it takes a lot of time to write what I expect will be at least an 800 page book, maybe much bigger.

In the meantime this is the sequence:

1. Expert 2005 Business Objects (available at fine booksellers everywhere)
2. CSLA .NET Version 2.1 Handbook (http://store.lhotka.net)
3. Using CSLA .NET 3.0  (http://store.lhotka.net)
4. http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/CategoryView,category,CSLA%2B.NET.aspx