There's a subforum under 'Future Development' forum for the MVC version. We also need one for the next version 8.0. I have tried multiple tiems to download the 8.0 branch from gitbub and it doesn't compile. I have spent time to get it to compile and it finally did but it gave a fatal error upon installation. I opened a ticket about this in the tracker but no progress so far.

The subforum would add more transparency about the development and issues encountered.

Some developers from dnnsoftware are working on 8.0 so the solution must be compiling and working for them. It would be helpful if they upload a working compilable version on github so we can check it out. dnnsoftware is asking for help from the community but they are not making it easy for us to do this if the thing doesn't work! I also asked more than 2 weeks ago about the support for MVC partial views and received no answer. All this friction is discouraging and not helpful. Or maybe I should wait till this version is mature and out.

 

I just checked out the branch and it doesn't compile. 261 errors. It NEVER compiled for me and I have checked it out at different occasions after different updates. I really do not wish to spend lots of time getting it to compile every time I do a clean checkout.

What does it take to checkout the whole branch and get it to compile without manual intervention? Unless I am doing something wrong, how are you getting it to compile? I suggest you test this on a clean machine without any kind of pre setups for the benefit of the rest of us.

Yes I am aware of all that. A Visual Studio version prior to 2013 is not going to be able to open a VS 2013 solution/project and the .NET target is already defined in the project file.

I am going to fix the references one more time and post the issues after that.

Here's a sample:

Error 149 The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) UI\WebControls\PropertyEditor\Edit Controls\DNN Edit Controls\DNNRegionEditControl.cs 29 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 152 The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) UI\WebControls\PropertyEditor\PropertyLabelControl.cs 34 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 156 The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\Controllers\HostController.cs 40 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 53 The type or namespace name 'Web' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Entities\Host\Host.cs 45 11 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 127 The type or namespace name 'Web' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) UI\Containers\Container.cs 54 11 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 263 The type or namespace name 'OpmlOutlines' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) WebControls\FeedBrowser.cs 265 67 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 264 The type or namespace name 'OpmlOutlines' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) WebControls\FeedBrowser.cs 304 62 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 265 The type or namespace name 'OpmlOutlines' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) WebControls\FeedBrowser.cs 350 42 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 266 The type or namespace name 'OpmlOutlines' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) WebControls\FeedBrowser.cs 395 44 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 262 The type or namespace name 'Opml' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) WebControls\FeedBrowser.cs 254 17 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 21 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Globals.cs 60 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 22 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Initialize.cs 39 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 23 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Internal\ServicesRoutingManager.cs 23 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 24 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Lists\ListEntryCollection.cs 27 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 25 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Lists\ListInfoCollection.cs 26 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 26 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Utilities\Config.cs 31 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 27 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Utilities\DataCache.cs 33 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 28 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Utilities\FileSystemUtils.cs 38 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 29 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Utilities\RetryableAction.cs 24 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 30 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Utilities\XmlUtils.cs 40 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 31 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Data\SqlDataProvider.cs 36 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 32 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\Content\AttachmentController.cs 29 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 33 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\IPFilter\IPFilterController.cs 37 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 34 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\IPFilter\IPFilterInfo.cs 32 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 35 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\Tabs\TabVersions\TabVersionBuilder.cs 32 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 36 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\Tabs\TabWorkflowTracker.cs 29 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 37 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Common\Internal\EventHandlersContainer.cs 28 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 38 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Entities\Modules\ModuleController.cs 47 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 39 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Obsolete\LogController.cs 42 18 DotNetNuke.Library
Error 40 The type or namespace name 'Instrumentation' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Services\Log\EventLog\LogController.cs 42 18 DotNetNuke.Library