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6/17/2006 10:21 AM
 

Considering the fact that the core used to beta test new releases on dotnentnuke.com before releasing, I find it intresting to see dotnetnuke.com is still running 3.2.2

 

Are there any upgrade issues perhaps?


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6/17/2006 11:46 AM
 

Remember that DNN3.3/4.3 are "Release Candidates" and not "Final" releases.

When you see dotnetnuke.com running DNN3.3 that may be a hint that the final release is coming.

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6/17/2006 11:52 AM
 

Hi purplebox,

I've noticed that this site is running on DNN 3.2.2 as well.  I have been using DNN 4.x and have had great success with it.  I've put together the steps I used to update to DNN 4 from a multi-portal DNN 3 and can post it if there is an interest.

I see that there are more and more DNN 4 sites up and running, and would imagine that the Core Team members probably have their own upgraded, simply because you get to use the new features of ASP.NET 2.  If I had to guess, and this is soley a guess, one reason this site has not been upgraded yet is simply because of priority.  Another reason might be to keep this site in DNN 3 because there are still DNN 3 enhancements being made and this site would serve a useful purpose for testing backward compatability as new modules are being developed.

DNN 4 seems to be very solid but if you are thinking about updating to DNN 4 which uses ASP.NET 2 (optionally SQL Server 2005), and you have many 3rd party modules, you may want to look into the possible pitfalls that may affect your site.  I ran into two:

1) Hosting providers supporting ASP.NET 2 will normally use Medium Trust in shared environments.  For the most part everyone benefits here, but if you have modules that need higher trust levels, your module will thow a security/permissions error.  You can easily change your local environment's trust level via Start > Administrative Tools > Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration.  By default your local machine is setup with Full.

2) You may require your hosting provider to make full database backups for you.  The import/export utility in SQL Servers Integration Services allows you to backup the tables and data within, but not the relationships, stored procedures, etc.  Red Gate's SQL Packager provides a solution for this but it costs, http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_packager/index.htm

 
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6/17/2006 12:06 PM
 

I switched to DNN4/ASP.NET 2.0 myself as soon as it was available

It's obvious the core wants dotnetnuke.com to stay with ASP.NET 1.1 as long as possible. It's just I expected this site to run 3.3.0 by now. It kind of feels like they don't thrust their own new code  to run this site.

In my experience the latest iterations of DNN (3.3 and 4.3) are much better performance wise then the previous (3.2 and 4.0) So one starts to question why this upgrade hasn't happend yet.


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6/19/2006 5:56 PM
 
Nowhere on the download page does it say anything about a release candidate. Where are you getting this, or is the full version out now?

Jason Honingford - Web & Software Developer
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