This was one off our main reasons for moving away from Rodopi. I had written a huge amount of customizations for v5.1 in particular I wrote a COM object that replicated all the Business logic of Rodopi's EXE's for the Customer Support section. This allowed us to create our own GUI's that tied into the Rodopi database. It was a painstaking task as I took the trouble to integrate with the Rodopi Stored Procedures.
The v5.2 release saw the release of a Rodopi API that was supposed the same level of functionality as my COM object. However from what I found even the included samples didn't compile and run without some modifications. I cannot talk about releases after v5.2 as we never bothered to upgrade. However from what I understand a considerable amount of work has gone into the API, so it should be a lot better. I have also heard that Rodopi v6 will be done in .Net and it will be interesting to see. I am particularly interested to see if Rodopi used programmers who learnt about the framework first and hence take advantage of the OOP architecture. It will also be interesting to see if this is an ASP.Net Framework v1.1 or v2 product as the v2 release is expected towards the end of this year. This could prove critical as they may well use SQL 2005 which allows the use of the CLR in stored procedures. In otherwords all the business logic can go on the database server with the web server just calling recordsets from a web service running on the database server. I personally would welcome the move to .Net providing Rodopi provide some better developer documentation. As they are Microsoft Certified I would expect them to be using VS.Net and C# which means that they should be able to use a third-party product such as NDoc to produce this documentation. This will also help them in the long term with well commented code. I just hope that if developers are inheriting from Rodopi Objects that they don't make drastic changes to their objects resulting in breaking any third-party code. Regards, Suneel. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve J. Drenner Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Rodopi] Does everyone have issues when dealing with Rodopi O, and try and find out what new things will be in 6.0 --------------------- To Leave the Rodopi mail list send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LEAVE as the message body. Please also visit the Rodopi FAQ at http://www.rodopi-faq.com ---------------------
