.Net 2.0 + SQL 2005 migration

[ninjalabs]

Hi,

.Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 will be available shortly. Are there any plans to upgrade to these technologies in the pipeline, if so what are the post-release timescales involved?

Cheers,

- Chris.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Hi,

.Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 will be available shortly. Are there any plans to upgrade to these technologies in the pipeline, if so what are the post-release timescales involved?

Cheers,

- Chris.

Hello Chris,
The new technologies will certainly be used. The timescales involved are unknown since we would need to test deployment of the new technologies and also make sure there are no compatiliblity issues.

Warm Regards,
Warren Ashcroft

[ninjalabs]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I'm just trying to gauge if I should develop using the betas rather than the current 1.1 release for a project I am working on.

Cheers,

- Chris.

[Tanzy]

Chris,

At the moment if I was you develope using the current technology. You can however, take into account the new technologies while developing.

Ken

[ninjalabs]

Not so easy. This is a CMS platform. There are fundamental differences between 1.1 and 2.0's handling of templates (master-detail pages etc).

I'm tempted to move development to mysql / php as it's supported my RF and "cheaper". only draft 2-tier code has been produced so far so it would be possible to throw it away and start again.

[ninjalabs]

code ported to PHP... 12200 lines of C# is now 7300 lines of OO-ish PHP5. Thats an eye opener if there ever was one (and it produced valid XHTML now!).

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

code ported to PHP... 12200 lines of C# is now 7300 lines of OO-ish PHP5. Thats an eye opener if there ever was one (and it produced valid XHTML now!).

Thats interesting...

[ninjalabs]

Only because i have complete control over code reuse so it's a little more optimised than the c# version.

Zend Optimiser on my development server appears to make a big difference to the execution speed.

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

I'm curious, was this original C# code v1.1 or v2?

I would also like to add that I have been running the ASP.Net Beta 2 in production for sometime now and have not come across any real showstoppers. I do think that on release it will be a quick process to evaluate and test priorto upgrading production servers.

[ninjalabs]

It was 2.0 beta 2 (well august ctp now).

I've got a few show stoppers. At work, we've experienced lots of problems with out of memory exceptions where the GC isn't collecting SqlConnection and GDI+ resources properly.

Our traffic is about 2400 hits a minute so that might just be a scale issue
I've redeveloped the entire thing in C# 2.0 again now (PHP5 appears to be from a technical perspective a good prototype language but it doesn't scale well at all!).