As I have been working on developing modules for DotNetNuke which use the Ajax.NET library. I thought it would be nice to start a thread to discuss some of the pros and cons of doing so.
Our team at Swirlhost recently ran into a conflict between our module's use of ajaxpro.dll and another company's use of ajaxpro.dll. The conflict was found to exist because each of our DNN Modules was using differing versions of the ajaxpro.dll. First of all, I have to say "hats off to Michael" not only for developing such a powerful ajax library, but for the support he gave us when we found this confict. He had immediately contacted me through IM, and proceded to track down and find a small bug, and get it patched before I could even get my new project opened to test it out. That was officially the fastest bug fix I've ever seen. THANK YOU MICHAEL. Next, after some research we all found that because the production build of the ajaxpro.dll file was "strongly named" these differing versions could not be effectively used in the DotNetNuke environment where many module developers may be using differing releases of the ajax.net provider. If I understand correctly, Michael is thinking of releasing future builds of the AJAX.NET provider in both strongly-named and simply-named formats. Then, for those of us using DotNetNuke and ajaxpro.dll, we can worry (less) about stepping on each other's toes when building modules which use the ajaxpro library. We can do this by ALL referencing the simply-named ajaxpro.dll file so that there isn't so much strict enforcement of specific assembly version. Now this isn't a "trouble free" environment, but it definitely makes it easier to adopt the ajaxpro library in Module Development in DNN. I think this will improve the adoption somewhat in the DNN community. What do you think? Are you using the AJAX.NET provider in your DNN modules? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ajax.NET Professional" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ajaxpro The latest downloads of Ajax.NET Professional can be found at http://www.ajaxpro.info/ Don't forget to read my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
