.net framework 3.5 was released today.  Yay!

Will it be made available to UltimaHost members? 

We will deploying the framework over the next week. This won't be reflected in DNP however. You will be able to utilize the .Net 3.5 objects / classes in your code though.

Cheers,

Mark 

 

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System Administrator

How will the sites function running 3.5 without the ability to set the web site to run under the 3.x framework in DNP?

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

itechcs:

How will the sites function running 3.5 without the ability to set the web site to run under the 3.x framework in DNP?

 You set the .Net Version in the Website. The DNP panel mainly deals with ASP.Net and its version which I don't think changes.

Example: You can set your website up NOW to use 3.0, but the DNP only gives you the choice of 1.1 or 2.0 (and I think 2.0 with Intergrated Pipeline).

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-Wilson Gearld Mead III
www.rangoric.com (Rather Blah)
blog.rangoric.name (Closer to Not Blah)

DNP is a tool to administer the web sites in IIS.  In IIS, you have to specify the correct .Net Framework for a web application to run under.  This tells IIS which framework to load so the site will run properly.  If you select 1.x and your site's code is actually 2.x, it won't run.  Wouldn't the same be true for 3.x (it won't run if 2.x is selected)?

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

itechcs:

DNP is a tool to administer the web sites in IIS.  In IIS, you have to specify the correct .Net Framework for a web application to run under.  This tells IIS which framework to load so the site will run properly.  If you select 1.x and your site's code is actually 2.x, it won't run.  Wouldn't the same be true for 3.x (it won't run if 2.x is selected)?

You don't select the .Net Version in DNP now. You select the ASP.Net Version which is unchanged. I will see what is up (I will make a simple 3.5 web site and see what I need to do to get it to work).

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-Wilson Gearld Mead III
www.rangoric.com (Rather Blah)
blog.rangoric.name (Closer to Not Blah)

I beg to differ....In DNP, go to Websites > pick a site, go to Extensions......

I just changed mine from 2.0 to 1.1 and the site stopped working and threw a Runtime Error.  Changed it back to 2.0 and it works.

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

I'm not too sure on how it works, but I think .net 3.5 framework does not show up in IIS.   At least in IIS 5 and 6.  I'm not sure about 7.

Instead it runs under ASP.net 2.0 and targets the .net 3.5 framework.  This is similar to how 3.0 was/is.

The settings on which framework and assemblies to target are specified in the web.config.

Confusing...

I've discovered that 3.0 and 3.5 are just treated as part of 2.0.  Why they didn't just call it 2.1 and 2.5 or whatever, I don't know, but by selected 2.0 in DNP, a site built in 3.0 or 3.5 will work.

"You'll never see an IIS option for 3.0/3.5 because they are extensions of the 2.0 framework, not new frameworks."

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William Eaton, MCSE
iTech Computer Solutions, LLC
www.itechcs.com

What .net 3.5 offers is new language improvements (i.e next versions of C# and ASP.NET), plus new class libraries (e.g. LINQ). The CLR itself has not been updated (its still version 2.0, as it was when .NET 3.0 came out).
 

Thanks, we just converted to Visual Studio 2008!  Glad to here our host was ahead of us in adopting the newest technology!  You guys are the best!

 

-Ben

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-Ben