CSLA for VS2010

Andreas posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Hi Rocky.

According to the roadmap CSLA is supposed to support VS2010/NET4.0 not before 2010. We would like to start porting our application on VS2010 as soon as possible (mainly because of the promised new WPF features like charts etc. and possible performance improvements). Is there any chance to get access to a CSLA preview for VS2010Beta1/.NET4.0 before 2010?

Andreas

DocJames replied on Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I'm actually wondering the same :)

Jimmy

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Since I haven't started working on it, version 3.6.3 is your preview :)

As always, while I'm working on it, the code will be in svn - you can always grab the working folder from the repository. My development process is about as transparent as I can make it.

At the moment though, Silverlight 3 is the priority, since it will be out many months before .NET 4.0.

But before I get to SL3 I need to finish a different project I'm working on, that is tangential to CSLA. Hopefully that'll be done in the next 1-2 weeks so I can dig into Silverlight 3.

fwiw, I did blog about the steps required to build 3.6.x in VS 2010 - it appears that the VS upgrade wizard has some bugs, so hand-editing of some project files is required before they can be opened.

http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/BuildingCSLANET36InVisualStudio2010.aspx

Andreas replied on Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I was reading your blog entry and was wondering if you are still working on a port. So I only wanted to know if you (or any on else outside, who is reading this post) made any progress and what to expect midterm. I fully agree to push Silverlight 3 effort. So I will go ahead and give it a try on VS2010.

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The problem with creating a branch for VS10 is that I have to merge the
branch back into trunk later. I did this with 3.6 last summer and it was a
pain, because 3.5 had changed, and 3.6 had a lot of changes, and the merge
process was painful.

Right now I could have three active branches - 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 4.0.x. I
shudder to think what it would mean to merge 3.6 and 3.7 into 4.0 over time.

So I'm trying to minimize the number of active branches by putting off any
work on VS10 until the SL3 work is done and 3.7 actually exists.

Then I can put 3.6 and 3.7 into bug-fix-only mode while I work on 4.0.

Rocky


-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas [mailto:cslanet@lhotka.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:57 PM
To: rocky@lhotka.net
Subject: Re: [CSLA .NET] CSLA for VS2010

I was reading your blog entry and was wondering if you are still working on
a port. So I only wanted to know if you (or any on else outside, who is
reading this post) made any progress and what to expect midterm. I fully
agree to push Silverlight 3 effort. So I will go ahead and give it a try on
VS2010.